Nature's ghosts : confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology / by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrow, Mark V., 1960-

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife conservation--United States--History.

Wildlife conservation.

Endangered species--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Endangered species.

Extinction (Biology).

Endangered species--Law and legislation.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 497 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2009.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Bones of contention: the American incognitum and the discovery of extinction

Paradise lost: unraveling the mysteries of insular species

Sounding the alarm about continent-wide extinction

Nationalism, nostalgia, and the campaign to save the bison

Going global: the American committee and the first inventory of extinction

The Latin American turn: nature protection in the Western Hemisphere

Enter ecology: preserving nature's living laboratory

Reconsidering raptors during the interwar years

Salvation through science?: the first life-history studies of endangered species

"The nation's first responsibility": saving endangered species in the age of ecology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780226038155

0226038157

Publisher Number:

99983993677

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.