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Nature's ghosts : confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology

text Nature's ghosts : confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology

Barrow, Mark V.

Summary
As Mark V. Barrow Jr. reveals in "Nature's Ghosts", the threat of species loss has haunted Americans since the early days of the republic. Barrow shows how Americans came to understand that it was not only possible for entire species to die out, ... Read more
Contents
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 wildlife extinction -- Nationalism, nostalgia, and the campaign t... Read more
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Description
xi, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press 2009
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