Territorialising colonial environments : a comparison of colonial sciences on land demarcation in Japanese Taiwan and British Malaya

The thesis seeks to establish how far, and in what ways, colonial science articulates a distinctive mode of environmental conceptions and governance. It concerns the entanglement between the government, science, and knowledge. To examine how these combinations may vary it compares how land demarcati...

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Main Author: Yeh, Er-Jian
Published: Durham University 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.541027