{"product_id":"biocultural-empire-antoinette-burton-9781350451056","title":"Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuman species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today.\u003c\/b\u003e This open access collection challenges that assumption, and investigates what histories of empire look like if reimagined as the effect of biocultural, chemical and cultural processes, rather than the result of effects \u003ci\u003eby \u003c\/i\u003ehumans that have been visited \u003ci\u003eupon\u003c\/i\u003e cultural landscapes, fauna and biomes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn understanding the boundaries between human and nonhuman worlds as porous and open to mutual transformation, and foregrounding interspecies interactions, \u003ci\u003eBiocultural Empire \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to understand the conditions of imperial power, experience and knowledge as a remix of 'nature' and 'culture'. Bringing empire's 'biocultural histories' to the fore, it asks imperial historians to reckon with an interpretative framework which refuses the sovereignty and boundedness of the imperial subject by seeing it as inseparable from its social and ecological formations. Through this biocultural framework this collection highlights how relentlessly the human species bias of western liberal thought persists at the heart of imperial projects and their histories, and offers a new anti-colonial method that represents a significant intervention in the field of British imperial history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of Illinois, USA and University of British Columbia, Canada.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antoinette Burton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350451053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350451056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Antoinette Burton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46431507284223,"sku":"9781350451056","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f1c5f532-ba9e-47a8-988f-6d296fedb62e.jpg?v=1735141544","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/biocultural-empire-antoinette-burton-9781350451056","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}