Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand

by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking

The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zealand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350166006
• ISBN13: 9781350166004
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"