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Title Ecology and empire : environmental history of settler societies / edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin
Published Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction ecology and empire : towards an Australian history of the world / Tom Griffiths -- Frontiers of fire / Stephen J. Pyne -- The nature of Australia / Eric Rolls -- The fate of empire in low- and high-energy ecosystems / Timothy F. Flannery -- Ecology : a science of empire? / Libby Robin -- Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies / Thomas R. Dunlap -- Vets, viruses and environmentalism at the Cape / William Beinart -- Enterprise and dependency : water management in Australia / J.M. Powell -- Nationhood and national parks : comparative examples from the post-imperial experience / Jane Carruthers -- Scotland in South Africa : John Croumbie Brown and the roots of settler environmentalism / Richard Grove -- Mawson of the Anarctic, Flynn of the Inland : progressive heroes on Australia's ecological frontiers / Brigid Hains -- Ecology, imperialism and deforestation / Michael Williams -- Global developments and Latin American environments / Elinor G.K. Melville -- The Transvaal beef frontier : environment, markets and the ideology of development, 1902-1942 / Shaun Milton -- Empire and the ecological apocalypse : the historiography of the imperial environment / John M. MacKenzie -- Empires and ecologies : reflections on environmental history / David Lowenthal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Colonies -- History.
Ecology -- Europe -- Colonies -- History.
Ethnic relations -- History.
Imperialism -- History.
Land settlement -- Europe -- Colonies -- History.
Sex role -- History.
SUBJECT Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Colonies -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012516
Author Griffiths, Tom, 1957-
Robin, Libby, 1956-
LC no. 98103979
ISBN 1853311995 (paperback)
Other Titles Ecology & empire