Chinnagounder's challenge :: the question of ecological citizenship /

"Deane Curtin examines the dual legacy of the great nineteenth-century utilitarian reformers, Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill, who advocated radical social change at home while they endorsed, indeed invented, colonial social and environmental policies for the East India Company...

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Main Author: Curtin, Deane W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1999.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Deane Curtin examines the dual legacy of the great nineteenth-century utilitarian reformers, Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill, who advocated radical social change at home while they endorsed, indeed invented, colonial social and environmental policies for the East India Company. This colonial logic is then connected to twentieth-century attempts to export "progress" to the "third world": the green revolution, and provisions of GATT that allow for privatization of human genes and seeds. Asking whether the American debate over the proper relationship of culture to nature can be exported to other parts of the world, Curtin articulates a response in terms of a new, distinctively American, postcolonial, environmental ethic."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.
ISBN:0253109078
9780253109071
9780253335760
0253335760
9780253213303
0253213304
9786612062858
6612062851
1282062859
9781282062856

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