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True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860a 1930
One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers attempted to remake the natural environment into an idealized garden landscape. As this cutting-edge history shows, an important result of this nineteenth-century effort to "renovate" nature was a far-reaching exchange of ideas between the United States - especially in California - and Australia. Ian Tyrrell demonstrates how Californians and Australians shared plants, insects, personnel, technology, and dreams, creating a system of environmental exchange that transcended national and natural boundaries. True Gardens of the Gods traces a new nineteenth-century environmental sensibility that emerged from the collision of European expansion with these frontier environments.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 1999
- Pages: 327
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.33in - 6.34in - 1.06in - 1.42lb
- EAN: 9780520213463
- Categories: • United States - State & Local - General• Australia & New Zealand - General• Ecology
About the Author
Ian Tyrrell is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of The Absent Marx: Class Analysis and Liberal History in Twentieth Century America (1986), and Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective (1991).
Praise for this book
"Wealth or happiness--that is the subject of this surprising and timely book, a meticulously rsearched compendium of 70 years that linked the history of the sun-drenched state of California with the sun-burned country of Australia. . . . The lessons detailed in this true-life Victorian cautionary tale must be read by every environmentalist, sociologist or globocrat who thinks they have the solution tot he environmental or the economic problems of the world."--"Endeavour