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Author Barrow, Mark V., 1960-

Title Nature's ghosts : confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology / Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  333.95 BARROW, MARK V.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  333.95 BAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  333.9522 B27    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  333.9522 BARROW    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  333.95 BA    Check Shelf
Description xi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-472) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Wildlife conservation -- United States -- History.
Endangered species -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Extinction (Biology)
ISBN 9780226038148 cloth alkaline paper
0226038149 cloth alkaline paper
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