Cyclones, Shipwrecks and Environmental Anxiety: British Rule and Ecological Change in the Andaman Islands, 1780s To 1900s

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2020.130106

Vipul Singh

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Abstract

The article analyses how new settlements in the Andaman Islands changed the demography of humans and livestock in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Initially, British interest in the Islands was guided by its strategic location in the midst of the Indian Ocean. The aim was to establish a flag-post to secure imperial rule in India, Australia, Mauritius, and South East Asia. Convicts, guards and soldiers soon populated the islands. British expansionism had to face environmental forces that endangered the imperial project. Frequent cyclones, for example, resulted in a high number of shipwrecks on the coast of the islands. This article examines the role of ecological factors in the British imperial expansion in the Andaman Islands.

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飓风、沉船和环境焦虑:1780年代至1900年代安达曼群岛的英国统治和生态变化

这篇文章分析了安达曼群岛上的新定居点是如何改变十八、十九世纪人类和牲畜的人口统计的。最初，英国对群岛的兴趣是由其在印度洋中部的战略位置所引导的。其目的是建立一个旗杆，以确保在印度、澳大利亚、毛里求斯和东南亚的帝国统治。囚犯、警卫和士兵很快就挤满了这些岛屿。英国的扩张主义不得不面对危及帝国计划的环境力量。例如，频繁的飓风导致了岛屿海岸上大量的沉船事故。本文考察了生态因素在英帝国在安达曼群岛扩张中的作用。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.