Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities by McCalman Iain Frawley Jodi

Author:McCalman, Iain, Frawley, Jodi
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781315879642
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Notes

1

Kudzu was intentionally introduced to the United States in 1876 as a plant useful for controlling soil erosion, and its cultivation was encouraged throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In 1953, however, it was removed from the list of recommended cover plants; in 1970 it was declared a weed; and in 1997 it was added to the Federal Noxious Weed list (Britton et al., 2002: 325).

2

I am grateful to Matthew Chew for drawing my attention to this reference.

3

In the 1859 edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin does not name any individual plant species in the course of his discussion of introduced species; however, in the second edition of Origin, published in 1860, he makes specific reference to the cardoon and the thistle.

4

John S. Partington reproduces and analyses Wells’s contributions to Nature and the journal’s reviews of Wells’s own work in H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893–1946 (2008).

5

That Wells might consider accounts of European plants introduced to Australia in imagining the introduction of the Martian red weed to Earth is suggested by his reference in The War of the Worlds to the indigenous people of Tasmania, ‘swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years’ (Wells, [1898] 2009: 3). Wells clearly regarded Britain’s colonisation of a distant continent as an earthly model for his tale of interplanetary invasion.

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