"Empire forestry"--the broadly shared Forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century--may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world.
While giving careful attention to topics such as Forest reserva.
Melding the approaches of environmental History and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex ways this dynamic played out in twentieth-century Colonial Sierra Leone. "Empire forestry"--the broadly shared Forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century--may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world