Nature's ghosts : confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology / by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.Description: xi, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780226038148
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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