Empire and Environment
Image from Ernest Protheroe, "Every Boy's Book of Railways and Steamships" (London, 1911).
Making Critical Scholarship out of Imperial Debris:
Thirteen Ecocritical Takes on the Transpacific

Book review: Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific. Edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua and Zhou Xiaojing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022.

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