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“... classes. Although seldom masters of these changes, Europeans benefited from them nonetheless. Corey Ross, in Liquid Empire, cites the presence of brown trout in Kashmir as an example of the way in which, after the 19th century, the environmental scope of colonialism extended beyond land to take in rivers, lakes, coasts and oceans. Aquatic biota, like ...”

“... writing about books for the New Yorker and accruing what the magazine’s founding editor, Harold Ross, described as a ‘mountain of indebtedness’. ‘Her Constant Reader,’ he insisted, ‘did more than anything to put the magazine on its feet, or its ear, or wherever it is today.’Parker approached books in the same way as she had plays. That is, she ...”