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Nature and the English Diaspora Environment and History in the United States Canada Australia and New Zealand - Studies in Environment and History
Author: Thomas Dunlap

This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history, settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion, scientists' shift from natural histor...  more »y to ecology, and the rise of environmentalism. Addressing not only scientific knowledge but also popular issues from hunting to landscape painting, this book explores the ways in which English-speaking settlers looked at nature in their new lands.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780521657006
ISBN-10: 0521657008
Publication Date: 9/28/1999
Pages: 366
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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