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Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand

Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand

Brooking, Tom
Pawson, Eric

Paperback

Series: Environmental History and Global Change

AgricultureGeneral NatureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1350166006
ISBN13: 9781350166004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 28 2020
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zealand this process was carried to an extreme, with forest cleared and swamps drained. How, why and with what consequences did the transformation of New Zealand into these empires of grass occur? 'Seeds of Empire' provides both an exciting appraisal of New Zealand's environmental history and a long overdue exploration of the significance of grass in the processes of sowing empire.

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