Environment, Empire, & Early Modernity

This introduction discusses the intellectual project of this special issue. It takes stock of the recent literature on the interaction of early modern empires and the natural environment that has emerged in the last one and a half decades. The first two sections outline how this scholarship highlights the mutually constitutive nature of these interactions. They also outline how the six articles of the issue bring out these histories of co-constitution. The final section introduces the framework of the imperial-environmental complex to conceptualize these complex, pervasive, multi-layered, sustained, and dynamic interactions

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