Ecological Imperialism through Time

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This paper discusses how European colonization of America resulted in the transplantation of various diseases, plants and animals and how the Europeans justified it. The writer analyzes two books and compares their attitudes - "Ecological Imperialism " by Alfred W. Crosby and Peter C. Mancall's "Envisioning America".

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"Crosby presents the idea of the European desire to "grasp" other lands. That is, they wanted "to occupy in numbers and displace the indigenous populations" (Crosby 133) of the Americas. These populations include not only human ones, but plants and animals as well. Hakluyt felt English people and agriculture would transfer seamlessly, or that "grasping" the New World would be simple and complete. He has highly political and religious arguments as to why England specifically should command the new territories and in what manner this control would be manifested. "

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