Environment and History, Vol. 19, No. 1, February 2013

"Impressively detailed in its use of archive materials, [Other Landscapes] draws on primary sources from the colonial bureaucracy scattered across several archives in India and the UK.

"Impressively detailed in its use of archive materials, [Other Landscapes] draws on primary sources from the colonial bureaucracy scattered across several archives in India and the UK.

… Sutton’s work is firmly grounded in critical archival reading and remains rigorously empirical throughout. Sutton’s study takes a largely structural approach to a history of domination in the region…

… perhaps the greatest originality of Sutton’s work is in how she avoids merely ‘mapping’ the theories of other disciplines, and even other historians, onto her case study."