Taming the Great South Land: History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia
By William J. Lines.
Description
Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes of repeated environmental devastation - from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. The author shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation an...
ISBN(s)
1863730176, 9781863730174
