American perceptions of immigrant and invasive species: strangers on the land
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1. Verfasser: Coates, Peter A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press c2006
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-247) and index
Acknowledgments -- - 1 - Strangers and natives -- - Knowing nature through nationality -- - The - naming of strangers -- - The - alien menace : humanizing nature and naturalizing humans -- - 2. The - avian conquest of a continent -- - Transatlantic flights -- - Flying feathers -- - The - stranger finch -- - There goes the neighborhood : dispossessing the rightful tenants of land and sky -- - Standing up for Poor Jack -- - The - Cockney cousin -- - The - successful and exemplary sparrow -- - 3 - Plants, insects, and other strangers in the soil -- - Floral menace and floral promise -- - Strange fruits : the enrichment of nature -- - Determining desirability -- - Shutting the door on plant plunderers -- - The - menace of plant quarantines -- - A - horticultural Ellis Island -- - The - rediscovery of native value -- - 4 - Arboreal immigrants -- - Natural beauty and foreign beauty -- - The - glamor of a foreign name -- - The - tree that grew in Brooklyn (and nearly everywhere else) -- - The - strange career of the universal Australian -- - The - tarnished tree : California's raging Eucalyptus controversy -- - Eucalyptus eulogy : the natural value of heritage -- - Getting back to (lost) nature : restoring original California -- - Landscapes of purity and intolerance -- - 5. The - nature of alien nation -- - The - nature of fear and the greening of hate -- - Wilted metaphors and calling strangers names -- - Flora and fauna that are here to stay -- - The - globalization of nature and the universal sparrow -- - The - historian's contribution -- - Notes -- - Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 256 p.)
ISBN:0520933257
1429440104
9780520933255
9781429440103

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