Bibliograph

Nature's ghosts, confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology, by Mark V. Barrow, Jr

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Nature's ghosts, confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology, by Mark V. Barrow, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Nature's ghosts

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

272306608

Responsibility statement

by Mark V. Barrow, Jr

Sub title

confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology

Table Of 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 extinction -- Nationalism, nostalgia, and the campaign to save the bison -- Going global: the American committee and the first inventory of extinction -- The Latin American turn: nature protection in the Western Hemisphere -- Enter ecology: preserving nature's living laboratory -- Reconsidering raptors during the interwar years -- Salvation through science?: the first life-history studies of endangered species -- "The nation's first responsibility": saving endangered species in the age of ecology

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