Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history, settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion, scientists' shift from natural history to ecology, and the rise of environmentalism. Addressing not only scientific knowledge but also popular issues from hunting to landscape painting, this book explores the ways in which English-speaking settlers looked at nature in their new lands.

Thomas R. Dunlap is Professor of History at Texas AandM University, where he has taught since 1991. He is the author of two previous books, DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy and Saving America's Wildlife, and of about two dozen articles and book chapters. He has won the Theodore Blegen Award, given by the Forest History Society for the best article on forest and conservation history, three times.