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UNINA9910797931603321 |
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Titolo |
Making a new land : environmental histories of New Zealand / / edited by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Dunedin, New Zealand : , : Otago University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[New edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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