Nature's ghosts: confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
Publication details: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press 2009Description: xi, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226038148Subject(s): Wildlife conservation -- United States -- History | Endangered species -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History | Extinction (Biology)DDC classification: 333.95220Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Nalanda University Ecology and Environment | School of Ecology and Environment Studies | 333.95220 B2791 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 006865 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bones of contention: the American incognitum and the discovery of extinction -- Paradise lost: unraveling the mysteries of insular species -- Sounding the alarm about continent-wide extinction -- Nationalism, nostalgia, and the campaign to save the bison -- Going global: the American committee and the first inventory of extinction -- The Latin American turn: nature protection in the Western Hemisphere -- Enter ecology: preserving nature's living laboratory -- Reconsidering raptors during the interwar years -- Salvation through science?: the first life-history studies of endangered species -- "The nation's first responsibility": saving endangered species in the age of ecology.
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