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

• Pubblicazione: Dunedin, New Zealand : , : Otago University Press, , 2013
• Edizione: New edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.20993
• Soggetto topico: Landscape changes - New Zealand - History; Human ecology - New Zealand - History; Nature - Effect of human beings on - New Zealand - History
• Soggetto geografico: New Zealand Environmental conditions; New Zealand Colonization
• Persona (resp. second.): PawsonEric; BrookingTom <1949->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Making a new land
• ISBN: 1-927322-55-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808757003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II