Nature's ghosts
Subtitle: confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology
By: by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780226038148
Subjects: Wildlife conservation -- United States -- History.; Endangered species -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; Extinction (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bones of contention: the American incognitum and the discovery of extinction; title: Paradise lost: unraveling the mysteries of insular species; title: Sounding the alarm about continent-wide extinction; title: Nationalism, nostalgia, and the campaign to save the bison; title: Going global: the American committee and the first inventory of extinction; title: The Latin American turn: nature protection in the Western Hemisphere; title: Enter ecology: preserving nature's living laboratory; title: Reconsidering raptors during the interwar years; title: Salvation through science?: the first life-history studies of endangered species; title: "The nation's first responsibility": saving endangered species in the age of ecology.