Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction. Ecology and Empire: Towards an Australian history o f the world 1
5. Part I. Ecologies of Invasion
6. Chapter 1. Frontiers of fire 17
7. Chapter 2. The nature of Australia 35
8. Chapter 3. The fate of empire in low- and high-energy ecosystems 46
9. Part 2. The Empire of Science
10. Chapter 4. Ecology: a science of empire? 61
11. Chapter 5. Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies 76
12. Chapter 6. Vets, viruses and environmentalism at the Cape 87
13. Chapter 7. Enterprise and dependency: water management in Australia 102
14. Part 3. Nature and Nation
15. Chapter 8. Nationhood and national parks: comparative examples from the post-imperial experience 123
16. Chapter 9. Scotland in South Africa: John Croumbie Brown and the roots of settler environmentalism 139
17. Chapter 10. Mawson of the Antarctic, Flynn of the Inland: progressive heroes on Australia’s ecological frontiers 154
18. Part 4. Economy and Ecology
19. Chapter 11. Ecology, imperialism and deforestation 167
20. Chapter 12. Global developments and Latin American environments 185
21. Chapter 13. The Transvaal beef frontier: environment, markets and the ideology of development, 1902-1942 199
22. Part 5. Comparing Settler Societies
23. Chapter 14. Empire and the ecological apocalypse: the historiography of the imperial environment 213
24. Chapter 15. Empires and ecologies: reflections on environmental history 229
25. Select Bibliography 237
26. Notes on Contributors 245
27. Index 246