Preface / Anna Winterbottom
Introduction : new imperial and environmental histories of the Indian Ocean / Alan Lester
Botanical explorations and the East India Company : revisiting "plant colonialism" / Deepak Kumar
Medicine and botany in the making of Madras, 1680-1720 / Anna Winterbottom
Robert Wright and his European botanical collaborators / H.J. Noltie
The East India Company, famine and ecological conditions in eighteenth-century Bengal / Vinita Damodaran
Colonial private diaries and their potential for reconstructing historical climate in Bombay, 1799-1828 / George Adamson
Mischievous rivers and evil shoals : the English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime / Rohan D'Souza
The Rafflesia in the natural and imperial imagination of the East India Company in Southeast Asia / Timothy P. Barnard
"A proper set of views" : the British East India Company and the eighteenth-century visualization of South-East Asia / Geoff Quilley
Unlikely partners : Malay-Indonesian medicine and European plant science / Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Plants, animals and environmental transformation : Indian-New Zealand biological and landscape connections, 1830s-1890s / James Beattie
St Helena as a microcosm of the East India Company World / A.T. Grove
Afterword / Vinita Damodaran.
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The East India Company and the natural world. ISBN 9781137427267. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
