Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies'Ecology' and 'Empire' forged a historical partnership of great power and one which, particularly in the last five hundred years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. This book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so called colonized 'peripheries', the settler societies. It begins with Australia as a prism through which to consider the relations between settlers and their lands, but moves well beyond