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The colonial earth / Tim Bonyhady.

Title: The colonial earth / Tim Bonyhady.
Author: Bonyhady, Tim
Publication: Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 2000.

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Description

xi, 432 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

"It is conventional wisdom that Australia's colonists not only despised their environment but also were blind to their own destructiveness. The Colonial Earth challenges this stereotype. Tim Bonyhady reveals the extraordinary breadth and depth - as well as the limits - of environmental concern in Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788." "Taking art as his starting point, Bonyhady explores how issues such as the preservation of endangered species, the protection of forests, the maintenance of public rights over the foreshore and even the likelihood of climate change already loomed large in colonial Australia." "This is a story of activism and idealism, of intense appreciation of Australia's remarkable environment, and of sharp awareness of the limits to colonial growth. It is also a story of failure: of environmental ideals sacrificed to political expediency and commercial self-interest; of innovative and enlightened laws ignored and broken." "Drawing on a remarkable array of sources, from paintings and poems to reports of public meetings and parliamentary debates, The Colonial Earth shows that far from being a product of the 1970s, an environmental aesthetic has always been part of the culture of European Australia."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Miegunyah volumes ; 2nd ser., no. 34

Uniform Title

Miegunyah Press series ; 2nd ser., no. 34.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

0522849156

LCCN

^^2001411934

OCLC

46631521
SCSB-12405236

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Harvard Library