- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges
- Uniform Title
- All things harmless, useful, and ornamental (Online)
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- Alternative Title
- All things harmless, useful, and ornamental (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliiographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2019005296
- OCLC
- ssj0002151235
- Author
Minard, Peter Maxwell.
- Title
All things harmless, useful, and ornamental [electronic resource] : environmental transformation through species acclimatization, from colonial Australia to the world / Pete Minard.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Series
Flows, migrations, and exchanges
Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliiographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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