Richard Grove
Biographic Data
| ID | 372670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Grove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Grove |
| SIGNATURE | GROVE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1600–1854
The history of tropical forest change over the last millennium is difficult to chart with any confident degree of accuracy. Indeed, systematic attempts even for the last hundred years have been made only recently. In general, more is known at present about the history of tropical forests in Asia and Southeast Asia than forests in Africa or South America. Some historians have suggested that the environmentally destructive effects of colonialism we…
The Culture of Islands and the History of Environmental Concern
This chapter argues for the long historyHistory of environmental anxieties emerging in the context of the exploitation of colonies by European empires and not in the USA or metropolitan Europe. Drawing on examples from the USA, India, the Caribbean, South Africa and oceanic islands such as Mauritius and St. Helena, and building on pioneering research, it makes a persuasive case for the origins of a Western environmental consciousness and a conser…
Colonial conservation, ecological hegemony and popular resistance: Towards a global synthesis
This chapter concerns with the political economy of Western ecological systems, and the consequences of their extension to the colonial periphery, particularly in forms of forest conservation. It focuses upon the political economy of colonial forest and soil controls the societal response to other major forms of ecological intervention also deserves a more thorough examination. The chapter also focuses on the forms of colonial ecological control,…
The Great El Niño of 1789–93 and its Global Consequences: Reconstructing an Extreme Climate Event in World Environmental History
This article explores the global dimensions of an extreme climatic anomaly characterised by a series of El Niño events observable during the late eighteenth century. While similar events, comparable in their extent and severity, can be detected during earlier centuries, archival and physical data available for a later period suggest that the consequences of the El Niño of 1788–96 were most dramatic. Reconstructing this event may be a useful analo…
Prehistoric maritime migration in the Pacific islands: An hypothesis of Enso forcing
Long-distance human migration across the Pacific Ocean occurred during the late Holocene and originated almost entirely in the west. As prevailing tradewinds blow from the east, the mechanisms of prehistoric seafaring have been debated since the sixteenth century. Inadequacies in propositions of accidental or opportunistic drifting on occasional westerlies were exposed by early computer simulation. Experimental voyaging in large, fast, weatherly …
St Antony's conference on African environments, past and present
This, That and the Other
Chiefs, Boundaries, and Sacred Woodlands: Early Nationalism and the Defeat of Colonial Conservationism in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, 1870-1916
he main aim of this essay is to make a tentative assessment of some of the attempts made by the British colonial authorities to introduce forest conservation programs into Anglophone West Africa, and to sketch out the nature of some of the more elitist indigenous responses to those attempts. In the course of the essay we also aim to characterize the changing emphases and fashions of conservationism in West Africa and make some brief comparative r…
Indigenous Knowledge and the Significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch Constructions of Tropical Nature
While the growing volume of new long distance oceanic trade which developed during the fifteenth century helped to stimulate an awareness of the wider world in Western Europe, it also had a much more specific enabling effect on the development of natural history and the status of science in the eyes of government. A rising interest in empirical fact-gathering and experimentation led to a growing enthusiasm for experimentation with new types of me…
Green imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860
This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the emergence of a coterie of professional scientists, especially in the Dut…
Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius, and in Western India, 1660 to 1854
The history of tropical forest change over the last millennium is difficult to chart with any confident degree of accuracy. Indeed, systematic attempts even for the last hundred years have been made only recently. In general, more is known at present about the history of tropical forests in Asia and Southeast Asia than forests in Africa or South America. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the fact that the causal factors behind the erosion o…
Machrie Moor, Arran: Recent Excavations at Two Stone Circles
Excavations at stone circles 1 and 11 on Machrie Moor revealed previous use of the land on which they were situated, with features dating back to the earlier Neolithic. The exact positions occupied by both circles were found to have been preceded by timber monuments, comprising several elements in the case of circle 1. Evidence for fenced land divisions and ard ploughing between the timber and stone phases was also recovered. Both stone circles c…
Conservation in Africa: People, Policies, and Practice
Conservation in Africa: People, Policies and Practice
Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820-1900
(1989). Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820‐1900. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 15, Politics of Conservation in Southern Africa, pp. 163-187
Conservation in Africa: Peoples, Policies and Practice
Introduction: The scramble for Eden: past, present and future in African conservation
There is no doubting the seriousness of environmental and agrarian problems in Africa today in the eyes of the developed world. Human life, natural habitat, soils and species are all thought to be endangered in the continent to an extent never known before. The ‘crisis’ in Africa, whether enunciated in terms of sheer human suffering and the tragedy of famine, the threat to wildlife or the spread of desertification, is becoming a commonplace of ac…
Early themes in African conservation: The Cape in the nineteenth century
By the later part of the eighteenth century European colonial expansion and economic penetration in North America, southern Africa and India had begun to cause major environmental changes. Industrialisation in Europe, and especially in Britain, helped to accelerate this process. The nature and timing of these changes is still the subject of debate, but it is clear that by the turn of the century deforestation was already taking place at an unprec…
Charles Darwin and the Falkland Islands
Charles Darwin's notes, diary entries and letters covering visits to southern South America and the Falkland Islands in 1833 and 1834 throw light on the revolutionary events of the time. His notes also contain the first indication of an evolutionary concept, suggested by the endemic flora and fauna of the Falklands, which guided his later observations on the Galapagos Islands and lead ultimately to his theory of evolution by natural selection
The Charles Parker Archive
Richard Groves, Mary Baker, Phillip Donnellan; The Charles Parker Archive, History Workshop Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1 October 1983, Pages 147–151, htt
Agricultural Fluctuation in Europe. From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Cressey Dymock and the Draining of the Fens: An Early Agricultural Model
In England under the Protectorate, new patterns of land-ownership and the draining of previously waste lands made more urgent the need to evolve rational methods of land use. The work of Cressey Dymock, one of 'the Hartlib circle', is presented in this light. His theoretical models of crop and livestock zonation are examined, and similarities between the theories and economic circumstances of Dymock and Heinrich von Thiinen are explored
Housing investment programmes and the private sector
Prehistoric maritime migration in the Pacific islands: An hypothesis of Enso forcing
Long-distance human migration across the Pacific Ocean occurred during the late Holocene and originated almost entirely in the west. As prevailing tradewinds blow from the east, the mechanisms of prehistoric seafaring have been debated since the sixteenth century. Inadequacies in propositions of accidental or opportunistic drifting on occasional westerlies were exposed by early computer simulation. Experimental voyaging in large, fast, weatherly …
Indigenous Knowledge and the Significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch Constructions of Tropical Nature
While the growing volume of new long distance oceanic trade which developed during the fifteenth century helped to stimulate an awareness of the wider world in Western Europe, it also had a much more specific enabling effect on the development of natural history and the status of science in the eyes of government. A rising interest in empirical fact-gathering and experimentation led to a growing enthusiasm for experimentation with new types of me…
Machrie Moor, Arran: Recent Excavations at Two Stone Circles
Excavations at stone circles 1 and 11 on Machrie Moor revealed previous use of the land on which they were situated, with features dating back to the earlier Neolithic. The exact positions occupied by both circles were found to have been preceded by timber monuments, comprising several elements in the case of circle 1. Evidence for fenced land divisions and ard ploughing between the timber and stone phases was also recovered. Both stone circles c…
Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820-1900
(1989). Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820‐1900. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 15, Politics of Conservation in Southern Africa, pp. 163-187
Conservation in Africa: People, Policies and Practice
Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius, and in Western India, 1660 to 1854
The history of tropical forest change over the last millennium is difficult to chart with any confident degree of accuracy. Indeed, systematic attempts even for the last hundred years have been made only recently. In general, more is known at present about the history of tropical forests in Asia and Southeast Asia than forests in Africa or South America. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the fact that the causal factors behind the erosion o…
The Great El Niño of 1789–93 and its Global Consequences: Reconstructing an Extreme Climate Event in World Environmental History
This article explores the global dimensions of an extreme climatic anomaly characterised by a series of El Niño events observable during the late eighteenth century. While similar events, comparable in their extent and severity, can be detected during earlier centuries, archival and physical data available for a later period suggest that the consequences of the El Niño of 1788–96 were most dramatic. Reconstructing this event may be a useful analo…
Chiefs, Boundaries, and Sacred Woodlands: Early Nationalism and the Defeat of Colonial Conservationism in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, 1870-1916
he main aim of this essay is to make a tentative assessment of some of the attempts made by the British colonial authorities to introduce forest conservation programs into Anglophone West Africa, and to sketch out the nature of some of the more elitist indigenous responses to those attempts. In the course of the essay we also aim to characterize the changing emphases and fashions of conservationism in West Africa and make some brief comparative r…
Agricultural Fluctuation in Europe. From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Cressey Dymock and the Draining of the Fens: An Early Agricultural Model
In England under the Protectorate, new patterns of land-ownership and the draining of previously waste lands made more urgent the need to evolve rational methods of land use. The work of Cressey Dymock, one of 'the Hartlib circle', is presented in this light. His theoretical models of crop and livestock zonation are examined, and similarities between the theories and economic circumstances of Dymock and Heinrich von Thiinen are explored
Housing investment programmes and the private sector
Housing investment programmes and the private sector
Cressey Dymock and the Draining of the Fens: An Early Agricultural Model
In England under the Protectorate, new patterns of land-ownership and the draining of previously waste lands made more urgent the need to evolve rational methods of land use. The work of Cressey Dymock, one of 'the Hartlib circle', is presented in this light. His theoretical models of crop and livestock zonation are examined, and similarities between the theories and economic circumstances of Dymock and Heinrich von Thiinen are explored
Agricultural Fluctuation in Europe. From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
The Charles Parker Archive
Richard Groves, Mary Baker, Phillip Donnellan; The Charles Parker Archive, History Workshop Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1 October 1983, Pages 147–151, htt
Charles Darwin and the Falkland Islands
Charles Darwin's notes, diary entries and letters covering visits to southern South America and the Falkland Islands in 1833 and 1834 throw light on the revolutionary events of the time. His notes also contain the first indication of an evolutionary concept, suggested by the endemic flora and fauna of the Falklands, which guided his later observations on the Galapagos Islands and lead ultimately to his theory of evolution by natural selection
Introduction: The scramble for Eden: past, present and future in African conservation
There is no doubting the seriousness of environmental and agrarian problems in Africa today in the eyes of the developed world. Human life, natural habitat, soils and species are all thought to be endangered in the continent to an extent never known before. The ‘crisis’ in Africa, whether enunciated in terms of sheer human suffering and the tragedy of famine, the threat to wildlife or the spread of desertification, is becoming a commonplace of ac…
Early themes in African conservation: The Cape in the nineteenth century
By the later part of the eighteenth century European colonial expansion and economic penetration in North America, southern Africa and India had begun to cause major environmental changes. Industrialisation in Europe, and especially in Britain, helped to accelerate this process. The nature and timing of these changes is still the subject of debate, but it is clear that by the turn of the century deforestation was already taking place at an unprec…
Conservation in Africa: People, Policies, and Practice
Conservation in Africa: People, Policies and Practice
Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820-1900
(1989). Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820‐1900. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 15, Politics of Conservation in Southern Africa, pp. 163-187
Conservation in Africa: Peoples, Policies and Practice
Machrie Moor, Arran: Recent Excavations at Two Stone Circles
Excavations at stone circles 1 and 11 on Machrie Moor revealed previous use of the land on which they were situated, with features dating back to the earlier Neolithic. The exact positions occupied by both circles were found to have been preceded by timber monuments, comprising several elements in the case of circle 1. Evidence for fenced land divisions and ard ploughing between the timber and stone phases was also recovered. Both stone circles c…
Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius, and in Western India, 1660 to 1854
The history of tropical forest change over the last millennium is difficult to chart with any confident degree of accuracy. Indeed, systematic attempts even for the last hundred years have been made only recently. In general, more is known at present about the history of tropical forests in Asia and Southeast Asia than forests in Africa or South America. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the fact that the causal factors behind the erosion o…
Green imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860
This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the emergence of a coterie of professional scientists, especially in the Dut…
This, That and the Other
Chiefs, Boundaries, and Sacred Woodlands: Early Nationalism and the Defeat of Colonial Conservationism in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, 1870-1916
he main aim of this essay is to make a tentative assessment of some of the attempts made by the British colonial authorities to introduce forest conservation programs into Anglophone West Africa, and to sketch out the nature of some of the more elitist indigenous responses to those attempts. In the course of the essay we also aim to characterize the changing emphases and fashions of conservationism in West Africa and make some brief comparative r…
Indigenous Knowledge and the Significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch Constructions of Tropical Nature
While the growing volume of new long distance oceanic trade which developed during the fifteenth century helped to stimulate an awareness of the wider world in Western Europe, it also had a much more specific enabling effect on the development of natural history and the status of science in the eyes of government. A rising interest in empirical fact-gathering and experimentation led to a growing enthusiasm for experimentation with new types of me…
St Antony's conference on African environments, past and present
The Great El Niño of 1789–93 and its Global Consequences: Reconstructing an Extreme Climate Event in World Environmental History
This article explores the global dimensions of an extreme climatic anomaly characterised by a series of El Niño events observable during the late eighteenth century. While similar events, comparable in their extent and severity, can be detected during earlier centuries, archival and physical data available for a later period suggest that the consequences of the El Niño of 1788–96 were most dramatic. Reconstructing this event may be a useful analo…
Prehistoric maritime migration in the Pacific islands: An hypothesis of Enso forcing
Long-distance human migration across the Pacific Ocean occurred during the late Holocene and originated almost entirely in the west. As prevailing tradewinds blow from the east, the mechanisms of prehistoric seafaring have been debated since the sixteenth century. Inadequacies in propositions of accidental or opportunistic drifting on occasional westerlies were exposed by early computer simulation. Experimental voyaging in large, fast, weatherly …
The Culture of Islands and the History of Environmental Concern
This chapter argues for the long historyHistory of environmental anxieties emerging in the context of the exploitation of colonies by European empires and not in the USA or metropolitan Europe. Drawing on examples from the USA, India, the Caribbean, South Africa and oceanic islands such as Mauritius and St. Helena, and building on pioneering research, it makes a persuasive case for the origins of a Western environmental consciousness and a conser…
Colonial conservation, ecological hegemony and popular resistance: Towards a global synthesis
This chapter concerns with the political economy of Western ecological systems, and the consequences of their extension to the colonial periphery, particularly in forms of forest conservation. It focuses upon the political economy of colonial forest and soil controls the societal response to other major forms of ecological intervention also deserves a more thorough examination. The chapter also focuses on the forms of colonial ecological control,…
Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1600–1854
The history of tropical forest change over the last millennium is difficult to chart with any confident degree of accuracy. Indeed, systematic attempts even for the last hundred years have been made only recently. In general, more is known at present about the history of tropical forests in Asia and Southeast Asia than forests in Africa or South America. Some historians have suggested that the environmentally destructive effects of colonialism we…
Geography (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (12 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works)