Product Description

Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes of repeated environmental devastation - from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. The author shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3518606 in Books
• Published on: 1991-11-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 337 pages

Review
"Line's use of the environment as the focus of Australian history is thought-provoking."--"Vertigo