Title American perceptions of immigrant and invasive species : strangers on the land / Peter Coates

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations Contents Acknowledgments -- 1. Strangers and natives -- Knowing nature through nationality -- The naming of strangers -- The alien menace : humanizing nature and naturalizing humans -- 2. The avian conquest of a continent -- Transatlantic flights -- Flying feathers -- The stranger finch -- There goes the neighborhood : dispossessing the rightful tenants of land and sky -- Standing up for Poor Jack -- The Cockney cousin -- The successful and exemplary sparrow -- 3. Plants, insects, and other strangers in the soil -- Floral menace and floral promise -- Strange fruits : the enrichment of nature -- Determining desirability -- Shutting the door on plant plunderers -- The menace of plant quarantines -- A horticultural Ellis Island -- The rediscovery of native value -- 4. Arboreal immigrants -- Natural beauty and foreign beauty -- The glamor of a foreign name -- The tree that grew in Brooklyn (and nearly everywhere else) -- The strange career of the universal Australian -- The tarnished tree : California's raging Eucalyptus controversy -- Eucalyptus eulogy : the natural value of heritage -- Getting back to (lost) nature : restoring original California -- Landscapes of purity and intolerance -- 5. The nature of alien nation -- The nature of fear and the greening of hate -- Wilted metaphors and calling strangers names -- Flora and fauna that are here to stay -- The globalization of nature and the universal sparrow -- The historian's contribution -- Notes -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-247) and index Notes Print version record Subject Introduced organisms -- United States -- History SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity. NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife. NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. Introduced organisms. United States. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520933255 0520933257 9781429440103 1429440104 9780520249301 0520249305

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