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Author Minard, Peter Maxwell, author.

Title All things harmless, useful, and ornamental : environmental transformation through species acclimatization, from colonial Australia to the world / Pete Minard.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges
Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Introduced organisms -- Australia.
Introduced organisms.
Australia.
Animal introduction -- Australia.
Animal introduction.
Plant introduction -- Australia.
Plant introduction.
Acclimatization -- Australia.
Acclimatization.
Adaptation (Biology) -- Australia.
Adaptation (Biology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Minard, Peter Maxwell. All things harmless, useful, and ornamental. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469651606 (DLC) 2019005296 (OCoLC)1085576661
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