Article ID: CBB001231331

Renarrating a Biological Invasion: Historical Memory, Local Communities and Ecologists (2012)

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Description On a biological control programme in French colonial Madagascar in which cochineal insects were introduced to control the exotic prickly pear population.


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Authors & Contributors
Stockland, Etienne
Alpers, Edward A.
Bennett, Brett M.
Casado de Otaola, Santos
Combeau-Mari, Evelyne
Engelmann, Lukas
Journals
Environment and History
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archives of Natural History
French Colonial History
History and Technology
Publishers
Harvard University
Columbia University
Brill
Harper Collins
University of Alabama Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Ecology
Insects
Biological pest control
Colonialism
Entomology
France, colonies
People
Banks, Joseph
Carson, Rachel Louise
Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis
Martínez de la Escalera y Pérez de Rozas, Fernando
Martínez de la Escalera y Pérez de Rozas, Manuel
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
20th century, late
Enlightenment
Places
Madagascar
France
India
Mexico
Great Britain
East Africa
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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