The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature - 9781554584888

The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment\nby Karl S. Hele\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Karl S. Hele\nTitle: The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Politics and government\nPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781554584888\nISBN-10: 1554584884\nRRP: \u00A338.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDrawing on themes from John MacKenzie's Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contempo.