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1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Why count animals? / Nancy Cushing and Jodi Frawley -- Cane toads as sport : conservation practice and animal ethics at odds / Libby Robin -- Taking locust country / Andrea Gaynor -- On the ant frontier : ontological conflict with Iridomyrmex humilis in post-war Sydney / Adam Gall -- A swarm of sheep : colonizing the Esperance bioregion / Nicole Chalmer -- Optimism unlimited : prospects for the pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer and trochus industries on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, 1860-1940 / Rohan Lloyd -- Swamplands : human-animal relationships in place / Emily O'Gorman -- "Pain for animals. Profit for people" : the campaign Against live sheep exports / Gonzalo Villanueva -- "Cunning, intractable, destructive animals" : pigs as co-colonisers in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, 1840-60 / Nancy Cushing -- Wine worlds are animal worlds, too : Native Australian animal vine feeders and interspecies relations in the ecologies that host vineyards / Julie McIntyre -- Defending nature : animals and militarised landscapes in Australia / Ben Wilkie -- A slow catastrophe? " fishing for sport and commerce in colonial Victoria / David Harris -- The palatability of pests : redfin in the Murray-Darling Basin / Jodi Frawley -- After none : memorialising animal species extinction through monuments / Dolly Jørgensen. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Print version: Animals count. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9780815381365 (DLC) 2018007508 |