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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797931603321

Titolo

Making a new land : environmental histories of New Zealand / / edited by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dunedin, New Zealand : , : Otago University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-927322-55-3

Edizione

[New edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

304.20993

Soggetti

Landscape changes - New Zealand - History

Human ecology - New Zealand - History

Nature - Effect of human beings on - New Zealand - History

New Zealand Environmental conditions

New Zealand Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

7 Destruction under the guise of improvement? The forest, 1840-1920: Graeme WynnPart III Wild places; 8 Children of the burnt bush: New Zealanders and the indigenous remnant, 1880-1930: Paul Star and Lynne Lochhead; 9 The meanings of mountains: Eric Pawson; 10 'Swamps which might doubtless Easily be drained': swamp drainage and its impact on the indigenous: Geoff Park; Part IV Modernising; 11 The grasslands revolution reconsidered: Tom Brooking and Vaughan Wood; 12 An interventionist state: 'wise use' forestry and soil conservation Michael Roche