Barrow, Mark V.,  1960- <br/><br/>
Nature's ghosts :  confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology / 
by Mark V. Barrow, Jr. 
 - Chicago ;  London :  The University of Chicago Press,  2009. 
 - xi, 497 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226038148  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wildlife conservation--History.--United States<br/>Endangered species--Law and legislation--History.--United States<br/>Extinction (Biology)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.95220973 BAR