Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

by Thomas Dunlap

Book Overview

First published in 1999, this book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature as a part of the culture in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history in the great nineteenth-century expansion of settlement. It explores settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion and scientists' shift from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521657008
• ISBN13: 9780521657006
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"