Richard Grove on the south coast of New South Wales. Image courtesy of Vinita Damodaran and Bill Grove.
Richard Grove on the south coast of New South Wales. Image courtesy of Vinita Damodaran and Bill Grove. Written by Associate Professor Ruth Morgan It is with great sadness that we reflect on the life and career of the environmental historian, Richard Grove, who passed on 25 June aged 64. A figure of global consequence, Richard had a particular connection with Australia, especially to the Australian National University, where he worked for several years and did some of his most significant work. Born in Cambridge to geographers A.T. 'Dick' and Jean Grove, Richard's early work concentrated on Africa. During his doctoral studies at Cambridge University under the supervision of historical demographer Tony Wrigley, agrarian historian Joan Thirsk, and economic historian Barry Supple, he began to see India and the Caribbean as important sites in the colonial development of the environmental theories and practices that he would come to understand as early forms of environmentalism. Tracing these ideas through archives in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean islands, Richard was able to turn the conventional historiography on its head.
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