ABSTRACT
At its height, the British Empire was the most impressive example of colonialism ever constructed. Its global reach was unparalleled, its legacy enduring. It transformed political relations, economies, ethnicities and social relations, sometimes quickly and almost everywhere profoundly. It also transformed nature, creating new landscapes, new ecologies and new relations between humans and non-human nature; in the process, it created new ideologies of those relationships (Shiva, 1989).
