Seeds of empire : the environmental transformation of New Zealand / Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson ; with Paul Star ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooking, Tom, 1949-

Contributor:

Pawson, Eric.

Star, Paul.

Series:

Environmental history and global change series ; 4.

Environmental history and global change series ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--New Zealand.

Natural history.

Landscapes--New Zealand--History--20th century.

Landscapes.

Grasslands--New Zealand--History--20th century.

Grasslands.

Deforestation--New Zealand--History--20th century.

Deforestation.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--New Zealand.

Nature.

Human geography--New Zealand--History--20th century.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, N.Y. : I. B. Tauris, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Terminology, Maori Language Conventions, Place Names and Measurements; Notes on Contributors; Map of New Zealand; Preface; 1. Introduction

Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking; 2. The Contours of Transformation

Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson; 3. Learning about the Environment in Early Colonia New Zealand

Peter Holland, Jim Williams and Vaughan Wood; 4. Pioneer Grassland Farming: Pragmatism, Innovation and Experimentation

Peter Holland, Paul Star and Vaughan Wood; 5. Pastoralism and the Transformation of the Open Grassland

Robert Peden

6. Mobilising Capital

Jim McAloon 7. The Grass Seed Trade

Eric Pawson and Vaughan Wood; 8. Flows of Agricultural Information

Vaughan Wood and Eric Pawson; 9. The Farmer, Science and the State in New Zealand

Paul Star and Tom Brooking; 10. Remaking the Grasslands: the 1920's and 1930's

Tom Brooking and Paul Star; 11. Conclusion

Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson; Appendix 1: Common and Formal Names of Plants; Appendix 2: Short Biographies of Twelve Pasture Plants; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613057433

9781283057431

1283057433

9780857719201

0857719203

OCLC:

720669720