All things harmless, useful, and ornamental environmental transformation through species acclimatization, from colonial Australia to the world / Pete Minard.
| Author/creator | Minard, Peter Maxwell |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] |
| Description | ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Series | Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges. ^A1347336 |
| Contents | Edward Wilson: acclimatization gets organized -- Local acclimatization theories -- Colonial creations -- Regulating and understanding victorian fisheries -- Aquaculture -- Hunting Victoria -- The decline of terrestrial acclimatization -- The transformation of fish acclimatization. |
| Abstract | "Species acclimatization -- the organized introduction of organisms to a new region -- is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters and exchange supposedly useful local and exotic organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement, arguing that the colonies, not the imperial centers, led the movement for species acclimatization"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliiographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019005296 |
| ISBN | 9781469651606 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469651613 (pbk ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |