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This extremely well-written book is engaging, creatively researched, and a welcome contribution to the twentieth-century history of both Indian wildlife conservation and the rise of biodiversity conservation ideas globally. American Historical Review

It is people such as Lewis, and the debate that books like this can initiate, that have the potential to make a real difference to difficult and chronic global problems...this book is user-friendly for lay-readers, thanks in no small measure to the author's superb story-telling ability. - Nature Michael Lewis's book addresses an important area of interest in Indian ecology-how institutions and personalities-both domestic and international-have shaped the conservation ethic in India from Independence to the current era of U.S.-dominated wildlife ecology. - Landscape Ecology This extremely well-written book is engaging, creatively researched, and a welcome contribution to the twentieth-century history of both Indian wildlife conservation and the rise of biodiversity conservation ideas globally. - American Historical Review

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Michael L. Lewis; An assistant professor of history at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland, Michael Lewis trained first as a biologist and later in American studies. Inventing Global Ecology comes out of research conducted in India.

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