Ecology and empire : environmental history of settler societies /
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Victoria, Australia :
Melbourne University Press,
1997
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Ecology and Empire: Towards an Australian history of the world / Tom Griffiths
- Ch. 1. Frontiers of fire / Stephen J. Pyne
- Ch. 2. The nature of Australia / Eric Rolls
- Ch. 3. The fate of empire in low- and high-energy ecosystems / Timothy F. Flannery
- Ch. 4. Ecology: a science of empire? / Libby Robin
- Ch. 5. Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies / Thomas R. Dunlap
- Ch. 6. Vets, viruses and environmentalism at the Cape / William Beinart
- Ch. 7. Enterprise and dependency: water management in Australia / J.M. Powell
- Ch. 8. Nationhood and national parks: comparative examples from the post-imperial experience / Jane Carruthers
- Ch. 9. Scotland in South Africa: John Croumbie Brown and the roots of settler environmentalism / Richard Grove
- Ch. 10. Mawson of the Antarctic, Flynn of the Inland: progressive heroes on Australia's ecological frontiers / Brigid Hains
- Ch. 11. Ecology, imperialism and deforestation / Michael Williams
- Ch. 12. Global developments and Latin American environments / Elinor G.K. Melville
- Ch. 13. The Transvaal beef frontier: environment, markets and the ideology of development, 1902-1942 / Shaun Milton
- Ch. 14. Empire and the ecological apocalypse: the historiography of the imperial environment / John M. MacKenzie
- Ch. 15. Empires and ecologies: reflections on environmental history / David Lowenthal