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Nature's ghosts: confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology

Author

Barrow, Mark V., 1960-

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication Date

2009

Language

English

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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 wildlife 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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Subjects

Animals
Bedrohte Tiere
Biological Diversity
Endangered species
Endangered species -- Law and legislation
Endangered species -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
Extinction (Biologie)
Extinction (Biology)
Extinction, Biological
Faunavård
Faunavård -- historia -- Förenta staterna
Faune
Faune -- Protection -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Histoire
historia
History
Hotade arter
Hotade arter -- juridik och lagstiftning -- historia -- Förenta staterna
juridik och lagstiftning
Law and legislation
Life Sciences
NATURE
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife
Protection
SCIENCE
Science & Technology
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity
Tierschutz
Umweltpolitik
United States
USA
Wildlife
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation -- United States -- History

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Barrow, Mark V. Author

ISBN

9780226038148
9780226038155
9786613078292
9781283078290

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NoveList

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