Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
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