Colonialism and Ecology (Book review)

Abstract

Seven years before its present appearance in English, Michael . Mann's study of agrarian and ecological change in the central GangaYamuna Doab was fir s t published in German, in 1992. Though by then ecological concerns had begun to find a foothold in the terrain of his historical research in India, the overlap between social, economic and administrative processes still provided the most convincing explanation for his torical phenomena. The increasing inclusion of ecology as an influential factor seemed to add awkward edges to an otherwise harmonious construction.