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An ecological and postcolonial study of literature From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie /

This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how...

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Main Authors: Marzec, Robert P
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Geographical discovery & exploration > British Empire
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > British Empire
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 > British Empire
Literary essays > British Empire
Geopolitics > British Empire
Geography
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230604377
Summary: This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2007.
Carrier Form: 208 p.
ISBN: 9781403976406
9780230604377 :
0230604374 :
CLC: I561.074
Contents: Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: Notes Toward an Ontology of Land * The Territorialization of Land * Problematizing Enclosure in the Eighteenth-Century * Inhabiting Land in the Age of Empire: Twentieth-Century Literature.

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