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Richard Grove

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Historian (1955-2020)

United KingdomWritersLived 1955 to 2020 · aged 65
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Richard Hugh Grove was a British historian, environmental activist, and one of the contemporary founders of environmental history as an academic field.

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Richard Hugh Grove was a British historian, environmental activist, and one of the contemporary founders of environmental history as an academic field. His prizewinning book, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism 1600-1860 (1995), was considered a pioneering account of colonial environmental impacts and an origin for early western ideas on environmentalism.

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Lived 1955 to 2020 · aged 65
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