Thomas Dunlap

Nature and the English Diaspora

Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Herausgeber: Crosby, Alfred W.; Worster, Donald

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comparative history of the development of ideas about nature in the Anglo settler countries, first published in 1999.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 749g
• ISBN-13: 9780521651738
• ISBN-10: 0521651735
• Artikelnr.: 29337498

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Making the Land Familiar: 1. Natural history and the construction of nature
2. Remaking worlds: European models in New Lands
Part II. Beyond Conquest: 3. Reaching limits, 1850-1900
4. National nature, part I
5. Changing science, 1880-1930
Part III. Finding Firm Ground: 6. Reaching limits, 1920-40
7. National nature, part II
8. An ecological perspective, 1920-50
Part IV. New Knowledge, New Action: 9. The diffusion of ecology, 1948-67
10. The new world of nature.