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

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges. 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 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2019) Subject Introduced organisms -- Australia Animal introduction -- Australia Plant introduction -- Australia Acclimatization -- Australia Adaptation (Biology) -- Australia BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- General. Acclimatization Adaptation (Biology) Animal introduction Introduced organisms Plant introduction Australia Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469651620 1469651629 9781469651637 1469651637

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