The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, HeritageCambridge University Press, 17 בפבר׳ 2011 One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Now unfolding the fascinating story behind its mystique this 2002 book provides for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to developments in Reef science and management. Incisive and a delight to read in its thorough account of the scientific, social and environmental consequences of European impact on the world's greatest coral reef system, this extraordinary book is sure to become a classic. |
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Introduction | 1 |
ORIGIN STORIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY | 13 |
History as abstraction | 19 |
Adam Smith on the origin of language | 28 |
Smiths Theory of Moral Sentiments | 36 |
the Wealth of Nations | 42 |
Value as signification | 50 |
PRODUCING THE CONSUMER | 73 |
COOK AND THE LABYRINTH | 27 |
the Reef mystique develops | 35 |
a ferment of ideas | 41 |
the great compendium | 51 |
British settlement of New South Wales | 57 |
missing links in natures chain? | 65 |
PART | 171 |
Lyells solution of 1832 179 | 179 |
Ireland and the colonial critique | 112 |
three novels | 144 |
Conclusion | 182 |
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| 224 | |
Abbreviations and Acronyms | x |
An Overview | 1 |
PART | 9 |
Dutch English French | 20 |
so deductive a theory 185 | 185 |
The problem solved? 191 | 191 |
Funafuti subsidence theory tests 18961898 200 | 200 |
coral research expanded 19021920 207 | 207 |
RISE OF ECOLOGY 214 | 214 |
the subversive science 224 | 224 |
19201930 231 | 231 |
Second PanPacific Congress Melbourne 1923 240 | 240 |
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