Author: William AitonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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An Epitome of the Second Edition of Hortus Kewensis
Author: William AitonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Trading Nature
Author: Jennifer NewellPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824837673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
When Captain Samuel Wallis became the first European to land at Tahiti in June 1767, he left not only a British flag on shore but also three guinea hens, a pair of turkeys, a pregnant cat, and a garden planted with peas for the chiefess Purea. Thereafter, a succession of European captains, missionaries, and others planted seeds and introduced livestock from around the world. In turn, the islanders traded away great quantities of important island resources, including valuable and spiritually significant plants and animals. What did these exchanges mean? What was their impact? The answers are often unexpected. They also reveal the ways islanders retained control over their societies and landscapes in an era of increasing European intervention. Trading Nature explores—from both the European and Tahitian perspective—the effects of "ecological exchange" on one island from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Through a series of dramatic episodes, Trading Nature uncovers the potency of trading in nature. In the interweavings of chiefly power, ordinary islanders, the ambitions of outsiders, transplanted species, and existing ecologies, the book uncovers the cultural and ecological impacts of cross-cultural exchange. Evidence of these transactions has been found in a rich variety of voyage journals, missionary diaries, Tahitian accounts, colonial records, travelers’ tales, and a range of visual and material sources. The story progresses from the first trades on Tahiti’s shores for provisions for British and French ships to the contrasting histories of cattle in Tahiti and Hawai‘i. Two key exportations of species are analyzed: the great breadfruit transplantation project that linked Britain to Tahiti and the Caribbean and the politically volatile trade in salt-pork that ran between Tahiti and the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century. In each case, the author explores the long-term impacts of the exchanges on modern Tahiti. Trading Nature is a finely researched and entertaining work that will find a ready audience among those with an interest in the Pacific, ecological history, and the startling consequences of entangling people, plants, and animals on island shores.
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The Bradley Bibliography: Dendrology. 1911-12
Author: Alfred RehderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Bradley Bibliography: Forestry. 1914
Author: Alfred RehderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Bradley Bibliography: Dendrology, pt.1
Author: Alfred RehderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Catalogue of books in the general library and in the South library
Author: London univ, univ. coll, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Quarterly review
Author: The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description