The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection

by Mark Driscoll and Mark W. Driscoll

Book Overview

In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climate caucasianism"--the white West's pursuit of rapacious extraction at the expense of natural environments and people of color conflated with them. Drawing on an array of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Driscoll reframes the Opium Wars as "wars for drugs" and demonstrates that these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011211
• ISBN13: 9781478011217
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"