Tom Brooking

Seeds of Empire

The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand

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The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zealand this process was carried to an extreme, with forest cleared and swamps drained. How, why and with what consequences did the transformation of New Zealand into these empires of grass occur? 'Seeds… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-85771-920-1
EAN: 9780857719201
Produktnummer: 23575640
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 19'855 KB

Über den Autor

Tom Brooking is Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is co-editor (with Eric Pawson) of Environmental Histories of New Zealand (2002) and is a member of the Council of the Agricultural History Society. Eric Pawson is Professor of Geography at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He chaired the Advisory Committee for the New Zeland Historical Atlas. In 2007 he received the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal.