"Insatiable Appetite Revisited : The US Impact on the Tropical World" lecture by Prof. Richard P. Tucker at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 1st November 2011
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on ‘Insatiable Appetite Revisited : The US Impact on the Tropical World’.
Speaker : Prof. Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Prof. Richard Tucker, Adjunct Professor of Global Environmental History School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1966, for a political biography of M. G. Ranade and the early Indian National Congress. In the late 1970s he turned to environmental controversies during the Freedom Movement, centering on forest depletion and administration under the Raj, and the beginnings of forest protest movements. His publications on that theme are collected in the new volume, A Forest History of India (New Delhi: Sage, 2011). He then turned to studies of the American neo-colonial empire in its global environmental impacts. His most recent work centers on the ecological consequences of warfare and militarization through history. He is writing a book entitled, The Military and the Environment: A Global Survey.
Abstract : Following his studies of forest resources in colonial India, Prof. Tucker turned to research on the ecological transformations resulting from United States investments in the tropical world. In his book, Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Decline of the Tropical World, he surveyed American corporate investment in cane sugar, bananas, coffee, beef, natural rubber and timber products, and the importance of American consumer markets for these and other primary products of the developing economies. This study placed the U.S. “empire” in the context of commodity chain analysis, natural resource export economies, and other studies of neo-colonialism within the global economy, as a major dimension of modern global environmental history. His lecture at the NMML will consider those themes, in the contemporary context of recent Japanese, Chinese and other incursions into tropical resources and the political economies of developing countries, with implications for modern India’s history.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Speaker : Prof. Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Prof. Richard Tucker, Adjunct Professor of Global Environmental History School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1966, for a political biography of M. G. Ranade and the early Indian National Congress. In the late 1970s he turned to environmental controversies during the Freedom Movement, centering on forest depletion and administration under the Raj, and the beginnings of forest protest movements. His publications on that theme are collected in the new volume, A Forest History of India (New Delhi: Sage, 2011). He then turned to studies of the American neo-colonial empire in its global environmental impacts. His most recent work centers on the ecological consequences of warfare and militarization through history. He is writing a book entitled, The Military and the Environment: A Global Survey.
Abstract : Following his studies of forest resources in colonial India, Prof. Tucker turned to research on the ecological transformations resulting from United States investments in the tropical world. In his book, Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Decline of the Tropical World, he surveyed American corporate investment in cane sugar, bananas, coffee, beef, natural rubber and timber products, and the importance of American consumer markets for these and other primary products of the developing economies. This study placed the U.S. “empire” in the context of commodity chain analysis, natural resource export economies, and other studies of neo-colonialism within the global economy, as a major dimension of modern global environmental history. His lecture at the NMML will consider those themes, in the contemporary context of recent Japanese, Chinese and other incursions into tropical resources and the political economies of developing countries, with implications for modern India’s history.
Related Events : Talks | Environment
"Insatiable Appetite Revisited : The US Impact on the Tropical World" lecture by Prof. Richard P. Tucker at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 1st November 2011
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