All things harmless, useful, and ornamental : environmental transformation through species acclimatization, from colonial Australia to the world / Pete Minard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minard, Peter Maxwell, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Introduced organisms--Australia.

Introduced organisms.

Animal introduction--Australia.

Animal introduction.

Plant introduction--Australia.

Plant introduction.

Acclimatization--Australia.

Acclimatization.

Adaptation (Biology)--Australia.

Adaptation (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

Species acclimatization - the organized introduction of organisms to a new region - is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange supposedly useful local and exotic organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement, arguing that the colonies, not the imperial centers, led the movement for species acclimatization.

Contents:

Edward Wilson: acclimatization gets organized

Local acclimatization theories

Colonial creations

Regulating and understanding victorian fisheries

Aquaculture

Hunting Victoria

The decline of terrestrial acclimatization

The transformation of fish acclimatization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

979-88-908527-8-6

979-88-908527-9-3

1-4696-5163-7

1-4696-5162-9

OCLC:

1098174151