Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies

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Edinburgh University Press, 30 июл. 2019 г. - Всего страниц: 256
Ch. 1 Frontiers of fire by Stephen J. Pyne -- Ch. 2 The nature of Australia by Eric Rolls -- Ch. 3 The fate of empire in low- and high-energy ecosystems by Timothy F. Flannery -- Ch. 4 Ecology: a science of empire? by Libby Robin -- Ch. 5 Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies by Thomas R. Dunlap -- Ch. 6 Vets, viruses and environmentalism at the Cape by William Beinart -- Ch. 7 Enterprise and dependency: water management in Australia by J.M. Powell -- Ch. 8 Nationhood and national parks: comparative examples from the post-imperial experience by Jane Carruthers -- Ch. 9 Scotland in South Africa: John Croumbie Brown and the roots of settler environmentalism by Richard Grove -- Ch. 10 Mawson of the Antarctic, Flynn of the Inland: progressive heroes on Australia's ecological frontiers by Brigid Hains -- Ch. 11 Ecology, imperialism and deforestation by Michael Williams -- Ch. 12 Global developments and Latin American environments by Elinor G.K. Melville -- Ch. 13 The Transvaal beef frontier: environment, markets and the ideology of development, 1902-1942 by Shaun Milton -- Ch. 14 Empire and the ecological apocalypse: the historiography of the imperial environment by John M. MacKenzie -- Ch. 15 Empires and ecologies: reflections on environmental history by David Lowenthal.
 

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Ecology and Empire Towards and Australian history of the world
1
Part 1 Ecologies of Invasion
17
Part 2 The Empire of Science
61
Part 3 Nature and Nation
123
Part 4 Economy and Ecology
167
Part 5 Comparing Settler Societies
213
Select Bibliography
237
Notes on Contributors
245
Index
246
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Tom Griffiths is Fellow in the History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Libby Robin is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University

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