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This Book Offers A Comparative History Of Ideas About Nature, Particularly Native Nature As A Part Of The Culture, In The Anglo Settler Countries - The United States, Canada, Australia, And New Zealand. Addressing Not Only Scientific Knowledge But Also Popular Issues Such As Hunting, Common Names For Plants And Animals, Landscape Painting, And Nature Stories, This Book Explores The Ways In Which English-speaking Settlers Looked At Nature In Their New Lands And The Place They Gave It In Their Societies.--jacket. Introduction: Invaders, Settlers, Inhabitants -- Section One: Making The Land Familiar -- Natural History And The Construction Of Nature -- Remaking Worlds: European Models In New Lands -- Section Two: Beyond Conquest -- Reaching Limits, 1850-1900 -- National Nature, 1880-1920 -- Changing Science, 1880-1930 -- Section Three: Finding Firm Ground -- Reaching Limits, 1920-1940 -- National Nature, 1920-1950 -- An Ecological Perspective, 1920-1950 -- Section Four: New Knowledge, New Action -- New Ideas, Old Problems: The Diffusion Of Ecology, 1948-1967 -- The New World Of Nature: The Debate Transformed -- Epilogue: The Upshot. Thomas R. Dunlap. Includes Bibliographical References

Author

Thomas R. Dunlap

Publisher

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521657006

Subjects

Science, Nature, History