Author: Tyrrell, Ian
Title: True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860 - 1930
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiii,313 pp. Textual maps. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Renovating Nature: Marsh, Mueller & Acclimatization; Wheat, Fruit & Henry George: The Political Economy of California Horticulture; Trees in the Garden: The Australian Invasion; The Remarkable Pines of Monterrey: California Softwoods in Australasia; Irrigation & the Garden in California: Popular Thought; Dreams & Ditches: Deakin, Australian Irrigation, & the Californian Model; Transplanting Garden Landscapes: The Chaffey Ventures & Their Aftermath; To Australia & Back: Elwood Mead & the Vision of Closer Settlement; Bug versus Bug: California's Struggle for Biological Control; Blasting the Cactus: Biological Control in Australia; Epilogue: The Death of the Garden?

Keywords: Environmental History, Human Ecology, Plant Introduction, Agriculture, Comparative, Agricultural, Horticulture, California, Australia