All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental

Pete Minard is an honorary research fellow at La Trobe University's Centre for the Study of the Inland.

"[All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental] both updates existing acclimatization narratives and opens up further areas of investigation. Acclimatization, Minard shows, deserves renewed and increased attention from historians of science, environment, and empire alike."--H-Net Reviews "[Minard's] study is especially strong on. . . . Placing Victorian acclimatization activities in the frame of environmental history and locating them within the contexts of the great city of Melbourne and the state of Victoria prior to their 1901 incorporation into the Commonwealth of Australia."--Isis "A nicely balanced account of the efforts of the Colony of Victoria to acclimatise 'all things harmless, useful, and ornamental', from the gold rushes of the 1850s until the late nineteenth century. . . . [An] excellent book."--Historical Records of Australian Science "Minard applies a whole field of new work in environmental history to questions long considered by the history of science in Australia, producing novel and more complex readings of topics that have occupied historians for decades."--History Australia "Tracing the development, dissemination and implementation of the ideas, ideologies and individuals behind Victorian acclimatization, and the conflicts between them, is the major contribution of this book."--Agricultural History