American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species Strangers on the Land

Name: American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species Strangers on the Land
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ISBN: 9780520249301

ISBN-10: 0520249305

ISBN-13: 9780520249301

Edition: 2007

Authors: Peter Coates

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Sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, humans have transported plants and animals to new habitats around the world. Arriving in ever-increasing numbers to American soil, recent invaders have competed with, preyed on, hybridized with, and carried diseases to native species, transforming our ecosystems and creating anxiety among environmentalists and the general public. But is American anxiety over this crisis of ecological identity a recent phenomenon? Charting shifting attitudes to alien species since the 1850s, Peter Coates brings to light the rich cultural and historical aspects of this story by situating the history of immigrant flora and fauna within the wider context of human…

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List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/9/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 266
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Peter Coates is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol.



Acknowledgments



Strangers and Natives Knowing Nature through Nationality


The Naming of Strangers


The Alien Menace: Humanizing Nature and Naturalizing Humans


Our Fellow Immigrants Strangers on the Land



The Avian Conquest of a Continent


Transatlantic Flights Flying Feathers


The Stranger Finch


There Goes the Neighborhood: Dispossessing the Rightful Tenants of Land and Sky


Standing up for Poor Jack


The Cockney Cousin


The Successful and Exemplary Sparrow



Plants, Insects, and Other Strangers to the Soil Floral Menace and Floral


Promise Strange Fruits: The Enrichment of Nature Determining Desirability


Shutting the Door on Plant Plunderers


The Menace of Plant Quarantines


A Horticultural Ellis Island


The Rediscovery of Native Value



Arboreal Immigrants


Natural Beauty and Foreign Beauty


The Glamor of a Foreign Name


The Tree That Grew in Brooklyn (and Nearly Everywhere Else)


The Strange Career of the Universal Australian


The Tarnished Tree: California's Raging Eucalyptus


Controversy Eucalyptus Eulogy: The Natural Value of Heritage Getting Back to (Lost)


Nature: Restoring Original California Landscapes of Purity and Intolerance



The Nature of Alien Nation


The Nature of Fear and the Greening of Hate Wilted Metaphors and Calling


Strangers Names Flora and Fauna That Are Here to Stay


The Globalization of Nature and the Universal Sparrow


The Historian's Contribution


Notes 191


Index 249