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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Minard, Peter Maxwell, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 196 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Subject:	Introduced organisms -- Australia. Animal introduction -- Australia. Plant introduction -- Australia. Acclimatization -- Australia. Adaptation (Biology) -- Australia. Acclimatization. Adaptation (Biology) Animal introduction. Introduced organisms. Plant introduction. Australia.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12353477

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ISBN:	9781469651620 1469651629 9781469651637 1469651637 9781469651606 1469651602 9781469651613 1469651610
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2019).
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Minard, Peter Maxwell. All things harmless, useful, and ornamental. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469651606

Table of 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.