How a continent created a nation / Libby Robin.

By:

Robin, Libby, 1956-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sydney : UNSW Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780868409993
0868409995

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: How a continent created a nation.DDC classification:

303.40994 22

LOC classification:

HN843.5 .R63 2007eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Prologue: Beyond the biological cringe?; Chapter 1: Nature for citizenship; Chapter 2: Strange nature; Chapter 3: Unnatural economy; Chapter 4: Collecting the nation; Chapter 5: Desert nationalism; Chapter 6: The empty North; Chapter 7: Sustaining the exceptional; Chapter 8: Home truths; Epilogue: A natural nation?; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Summary: Shows how a new nation - Australia - was created in a very old continent. Looking at some of those who observe the natural world closely - including scientists, field naturalists and farmers - this title suggests fresh ways of living in an arid continent in times of global change, and gives hope that Australia can move beyond biological cringe.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index.

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Shows how a new nation - Australia - was created in a very old continent. Looking at some of those who observe the natural world closely - including scientists, field naturalists and farmers - this title suggests fresh ways of living in an arid continent in times of global change, and gives hope that Australia can move beyond biological cringe.

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