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American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species : Strangers on the Land /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Strangers and natives
- Knowing nature through nationality
- The naming of strangers
- The alien menace : humanizing nature and naturalizing humans
- 2. The avian conquest of a continent
- Transatlantic flights
- Flying feathers
- The stranger finch
- There goes the neighborhood : dispossessing the rightful tenants of land and sky
- Standing up for Poor Jack
- The Cockney cousin
- The successful and exemplary sparrow
- 3. Plants, insects, and other strangers in the soil
- Floral menace and floral promise
- Strange fruits : the enrichment of nature
- Determining desirability
- Shutting the door on plant plunderers
- The menace of plant quarantines
- A horticultural Ellis Island
- The rediscovery of native value
- 4. Arboreal immigrants
- Natural beauty and foreign beauty
- The glamor of a foreign name
- The tree that grew in Brooklyn (and nearly everywhere else)
- The strange career of the universal Australian
- The tarnished tree : California's raging Eucalyptus controversy
- Eucalyptus eulogy : the natural value of heritage
- Getting back to (lost) nature : restoring original California
- Landscapes of purity and intolerance
- 5. The nature of alien nation
- The nature of fear and the greening of hate
- Wilted metaphors and calling strangers names
- Flora and fauna that are here to stay
- The globalization of nature and the universal sparrow
- The historian's contribution
- Notes
- Index.