1. Richard Hugh Grove was a British historian, environmental activist, and one of the contemporary founders of environmental history as an academic field.
10 Facts About Richard Grove
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Richard Grove was married to historian Vinita Damodaran of the University of Sussex.
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Richard Grove held visiting appointments at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University in Canberra and the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University.
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Richard Grove spent a year at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC in the 1990s.
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Richard Grove became Professor and founded the Centre for World Environmental History at the University of Sussex in May 2002.
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Richard Grove received a five-year research appointment at the Australian National University in 2006, funded by an ARC Discovery fellowship, but was unable to complete it.
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In 2006, Richard Grove suffered a very serious car accident in Cooma, Australia, on his way back from the Manning Clark property "Ness" on the far south coast of New South Wales, and had been severely incapacitated from that time.
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Richard Grove published his first book at the age of 21 on The Cambridgeshire Coprolite Mining Rush.
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Richard Grove contributed to knowledge of the political, environmental and economic history of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and other Indian Ocean islands, Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria, the Southern Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand.
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Richard Grove argued that some important figures in the tropics actually helped to create early environmentalist thought in the British colonies.