True gardens of the gods: Californian-Australian environmental reform, 1860-1930

One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers at...

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1. Verfasser: Tyrrell, Ian R. 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press 1999
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Zusammenfassung:One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers attempted to remake the natural environment into an idealized garden landscape
As this cutting-edge history shows, an important result of this nineteenth-century effort to "renovate" nature was a far-reaching exchange of ideas between the United States - especially in California - and Australia. Ian Tyrrell demonstrates how Californians and Australians shared plants, insects, personnel, technology, and dreams, creating a system of environmental exchange that transcended national and natural boundaries
True Gardens of the Gods traces a new nineteenth-century environmental sensibility that emerged from the collision of European expansion with these frontier environments
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index
Beschreibung:xi, 313 Seiten Karten 24 cm
ISBN:9780520213463

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