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Seeds of Empire

The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand

Seeds of Empire( )
Author: Brooking, Tom
Pawson, Eric
Series title:Environmental History and Global Change Ser.
ISBN:978-1-84511-797-9
Publication Date:Oct 2010
Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $150.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:296
Detailed Subjects: Nature / Regional
Nature / General
Science / Life Sciences / Botany
Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests
Nature / Ecology
Social Science / Human Geography
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.42 x 9.54 x 1.13 Inches
Book Weight:1.33 Pounds
Author Biography
Brooking, Tom (Author)


Tom Brooking specializes in New Zealand and comparative rural and environmental history. New Zealand political history and the historical links between New Zealand and Scotland. This research has focused upon environmental transformation and the role of colonising peoples in that process, especially farming and its economic and environmental impacts.

He has published seven books by himself and co-authored two others. His three most recent books are Making a New Land Environmental Histories of New Zealand, Unpacking the Kists:The Scots in New Zealand and Richard Seddon: King of God's Own which made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015. This last title also won the 2015 Ernest Scott Prize.

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