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
Moore, Deirdre
Michael Ritterson
Edwards, Ryan Christopher
Ulrike, Kirchberger
Janet R. Smith
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Social History of Medicine
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History and Technology
French Colonial History
Filosofia e História da Biologia
Publishers
University of North Carolina Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of California Press
University of Alabama Press
Oxford University Press
Harper Collins
Concepts
Ecology
Insects
France, colonies
Entomology
Biological pest control
Natural resource management
People
Riley, Charles Valentine
Piéry, Marius
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Martínez de la Escalera y Pérez de Rozas, Manuel
Martínez de la Escalera y Pérez de Rozas, Fernando
Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
17th century
18th century
Enlightenment
20th century, late
Places
France
United States
Madagascar
Mexico
Ushuaia (Argentina)
South Asia
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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