James Beattie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6306952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Beattie |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Beattie |
| SIGNATURE | BEATTIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7370-3485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1790 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shepherds to the subantarctic
In this article we explore farmers' introductions of exotic pastoral species on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, and associated land management techniques, during the three decades of the sheep farming era, 1895-1931. We utilise the historical record and present-day botanical surveys to track the persistence of introduced plants through time, following the failure of the farming venture. Farmers' accounts give valuable details abo…
From history of science to history of knowledge
This overview presents some of the main approaches to histories of colonial science in Australasia as well as suggesting future areas of research. Given the plurality of knowledge systems in the colonial period, the authors argue that a framework defined by history of knowledge, rather than history of science, better reflects the realities of colonial Australasia and opens up opportunities for fresh and innovative scholarship. A history of knowle…
[W]hat Beauty in Oriental Art Means
This article presents new historical research on Asian art—particularly Chinese art—in New Zealand through the examination of the content and reception of the Loan Exhibition of Oriental Art, which was held in Christchurch from May to June 1935. It situates the exhibition within the context of Depression-era New Zealand, examines the place of Chinese art, in particular, in the developing cultural nationalism of New Zealand of this period, and hig…
Engineering Edens on This 'Rivered Earth'? A Review Article on Water Management and Hydro-Resilience in the British Empire, 1860-1940s
This article presents an overview of the management of fresh water in the British Empire from the 1860s to the 1940s. We argue that imperial water management shaped and responded to the imperatives of diverse ecologies and topographies, contrasting political and economic agendas and, not least, different colonial societies, technologies and lay expertise. Building on existing studies, we consider the broader ecological and social effects of water…
A Case Study of Chinese Migration and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s–1920s
This chapter examines the environmental impacts of overseas Chinese as a means of developing trans-national Chinese environmental history.1 In particular, it underlines the importance of Pacific hinterlands in shaping the environmental history of China's Guangdong Province, and adds to broader understandings of regional differences within Chinese environmental history.KeywordsEnvironmental HistoryChinese MigrationEnvironmental TransformationMinin…
Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia
This book critically examines modernization’s long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
Boring Through History
While depictions of mariners fighting fearsome sea monsters or battling terrifying storms entertain us to this day, it is perhaps ironic that one of the main threats to commerce over the last millennium or more has come from a series of very small organisms whose history has been submerged in historical accounts. Despite their marked long-term and large-scale impacts on global marine infrastructure, shipping and economies, shipworms, pillbugs and…
Climate, Science, and Colonization
Introduction Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman, and Matthew Henry Part I Frames, Events, and Responses Chapter 1 Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum 19 Andrew M. Lorrey and Helen C. Bostock Chapter 2 'The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear ... equal to the finest summer day in England': Floo…
Empire and Environmental Anxiety
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South
Empire and Environmental Anxiety
South Asian and Australasian Forestry Anxieties and Exchanges, 1870s–1920s
This chapter builds upon previous ones on the influence of particular groups to examine some of the direct exchanges of environmental anxieties and policies that shaped Australasian and South Asian conservation into the early-twentieth century. Advocates of forest conservation in Australasia drew upon the same centres of environmental knowledge (notably India by the 1870s, but also Germany and France and, by the early 1900s, the US) at the same t…
Natural History, Conservation and Health
This article considers the nexus between environment, health and colonial development through the migration, and visits, of Scottish-educated doctors to New Zealand. In arguing for the importance of local social, environmental and economic factors to explain their changing prominence within, in particular, the field of natural history, this article enriches and in some cases modifies the work of Richard Grove and John M. MacKenzie
Palliative care
Japanese gardens and plants in New Zealand, 1850-1950
Oscar Wilde once wrote that ‘the whole of Japan is a pure invention’.1 This comment hints at the complex processes behind cultural transfer and transculturation between different areas of Asia and the West from the 1850s onwards.2 The development of gardening aesthetics in New Zealand from the mid-Victorian to Edwardian periods showcases just how inventive, complex and sometimes contradictory Western society’s cultural engagement with the rising …
Empire, Environment and Religion
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century. Many of the colony's mostly Protestant settlers interpreted the book of Genesis as giving them responsibility to 'subdue and replenish' the natural world; domini…
Dissertations moral and critical (1783)
Longinus, the Secretary of Zenobia queen of Palmyra, who was conquered by the emperor Aurelian about the middle of the third century, composed many books of philosophy and criticism, and among others a discourse on Sublimity, which is the only part of his writings that has been preserved to our time. He is an author, not more remarkable for accuracy of judgment, than for the energy of his style, and a peculiar boldness and elevation of thought. A…
II. Remarks on some Passages of the sixth Book of the Eneid
The poetical beauties of Virgil's sixth book are great and many; and a most agreeable task it would be to point them out: but that is not my present purpose. Nor do I intend to draw a comparison of the sentiments of our poet with those of Homer, concerning a future state. From Homer, no doubt, Virgil received the first hint of this episode ; but the evocation of the ghosts, in the eleventh book of the Odyssey, is not in any degree so striking, or…
Empire, Environment and Religion
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century. Many of the colony's mostly Protestant settlers interpreted the book of Genesis as giving them responsibility to 'subdue and replenish' the natural world; domini…
II. Remarks on some Passages of the sixth Book of the Eneid
The poetical beauties of Virgil's sixth book are great and many; and a most agreeable task it would be to point them out: but that is not my present purpose. Nor do I intend to draw a comparison of the sentiments of our poet with those of Homer, concerning a future state. From Homer, no doubt, Virgil received the first hint of this episode ; but the evocation of the ghosts, in the eleventh book of the Odyssey, is not in any degree so striking, or…
Dissertations moral and critical (1783)
Longinus, the Secretary of Zenobia queen of Palmyra, who was conquered by the emperor Aurelian about the middle of the third century, composed many books of philosophy and criticism, and among others a discourse on Sublimity, which is the only part of his writings that has been preserved to our time. He is an author, not more remarkable for accuracy of judgment, than for the energy of his style, and a peculiar boldness and elevation of thought. A…
Empire, Environment and Religion
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century. Many of the colony's mostly Protestant settlers interpreted the book of Genesis as giving them responsibility to 'subdue and replenish' the natural world; domini…
Japanese gardens and plants in New Zealand, 1850-1950
Oscar Wilde once wrote that ‘the whole of Japan is a pure invention’.1 This comment hints at the complex processes behind cultural transfer and transculturation between different areas of Asia and the West from the 1850s onwards.2 The development of gardening aesthetics in New Zealand from the mid-Victorian to Edwardian periods showcases just how inventive, complex and sometimes contradictory Western society’s cultural engagement with the rising …
Palliative care
Empire and Environmental Anxiety
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South
Empire and Environmental Anxiety
South Asian and Australasian Forestry Anxieties and Exchanges, 1870s–1920s
This chapter builds upon previous ones on the influence of particular groups to examine some of the direct exchanges of environmental anxieties and policies that shaped Australasian and South Asian conservation into the early-twentieth century. Advocates of forest conservation in Australasia drew upon the same centres of environmental knowledge (notably India by the 1870s, but also Germany and France and, by the early 1900s, the US) at the same t…
Natural History, Conservation and Health
This article considers the nexus between environment, health and colonial development through the migration, and visits, of Scottish-educated doctors to New Zealand. In arguing for the importance of local social, environmental and economic factors to explain their changing prominence within, in particular, the field of natural history, this article enriches and in some cases modifies the work of Richard Grove and John M. MacKenzie
Climate, Science, and Colonization
Introduction Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman, and Matthew Henry Part I Frames, Events, and Responses Chapter 1 Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum 19 Andrew M. Lorrey and Helen C. Bostock Chapter 2 'The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear ... equal to the finest summer day in England': Floo…
Boring Through History
While depictions of mariners fighting fearsome sea monsters or battling terrifying storms entertain us to this day, it is perhaps ironic that one of the main threats to commerce over the last millennium or more has come from a series of very small organisms whose history has been submerged in historical accounts. Despite their marked long-term and large-scale impacts on global marine infrastructure, shipping and economies, shipworms, pillbugs and…
A Case Study of Chinese Migration and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s–1920s
This chapter examines the environmental impacts of overseas Chinese as a means of developing trans-national Chinese environmental history.1 In particular, it underlines the importance of Pacific hinterlands in shaping the environmental history of China's Guangdong Province, and adds to broader understandings of regional differences within Chinese environmental history.KeywordsEnvironmental HistoryChinese MigrationEnvironmental TransformationMinin…
Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia
This book critically examines modernization’s long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
Engineering Edens on This 'Rivered Earth'? A Review Article on Water Management and Hydro-Resilience in the British Empire, 1860-1940s
This article presents an overview of the management of fresh water in the British Empire from the 1860s to the 1940s. We argue that imperial water management shaped and responded to the imperatives of diverse ecologies and topographies, contrasting political and economic agendas and, not least, different colonial societies, technologies and lay expertise. Building on existing studies, we consider the broader ecological and social effects of water…
[W]hat Beauty in Oriental Art Means
This article presents new historical research on Asian art—particularly Chinese art—in New Zealand through the examination of the content and reception of the Loan Exhibition of Oriental Art, which was held in Christchurch from May to June 1935. It situates the exhibition within the context of Depression-era New Zealand, examines the place of Chinese art, in particular, in the developing cultural nationalism of New Zealand of this period, and hig…
From history of science to history of knowledge
This overview presents some of the main approaches to histories of colonial science in Australasia as well as suggesting future areas of research. Given the plurality of knowledge systems in the colonial period, the authors argue that a framework defined by history of knowledge, rather than history of science, better reflects the realities of colonial Australasia and opens up opportunities for fresh and innovative scholarship. A history of knowle…
Shepherds to the subantarctic
In this article we explore farmers' introductions of exotic pastoral species on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, and associated land management techniques, during the three decades of the sheep farming era, 1895-1931. We utilise the historical record and present-day botanical surveys to track the persistence of introduced plants through time, following the failure of the farming venture. Farmers' accounts give valuable details abo…
History (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)