Ecology and empire environmental history of settler societies

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Griffiths, Tom, editor literari (editor literari), Robin, Libby, editor literari
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press [1997]
Edinburgh : [1997]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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