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Names: Kirchberger, Ulrike, editor. | Bennett, Brett M., 1983– editor.
Title: Environments of empire : networks and agents of ecological change / edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett.
Other titles: Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Description: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] | Series: Flows, migrations, and exchanges | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019035098 | ISBN 9781469655925 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469655932 (paperback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469655949 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Human ecology—History—19th century—Case studies. | Human ecology—History—20th century—Case studies. | Global environmental change—History—19th century—Case studies. | Global environmental change—History—20th century—Case studies. | Imperialism—History. | Environmental sciences—History. | Europe—Colonies—History. | Turkey—History—Ottoman Empire, 1288–1918.
Classification: LCC GF50 .E57 2020 | DDC 304.2094/09034—dc23 LC record available at https://
Cover illustration: From Alphonse Milne Edwards and Henri Milne Edwards, Recherches pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des mammifères, tome second-atlas (Paris: G. Masson, 1868–1874). Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library.