Title Ecology and empire : environmental history of settler societies / edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin

Published Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Ecology -- Europe -- Colonies -- History Land settlement -- Europe -- Colonies -- History SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental) NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness. NATURE -- Ecology. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology. Land settlement -- Europe -- Colonies -- History. Ecology -- Europe -- Colonies -- History. Koloniën. Imperialisme. Ecologische aspecten. SUBJECT Europe -- Colonies -- History Subject Europe -- Colonies -- History. Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Griffiths, Tom, 1957- Robin, Libby, 1956- ISBN 0585193126 9780585193120 9781474468657 1474468659

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