Empire of Grass: The reconstruction of the New Zealand grasslands 1850s-1950s

Professor Tom Brooking
Marsden Standard Project, 2004-2006

The Empire of Grass team led by Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson, Professor of Geography at the University of Canterbury, is now completing the manuscript for a multi-authored book entitled Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand. This book is being published by I.B.Tauris (London) as part of their new Environmental History series. It is expected to be in print by late 2010. In addition to this upcoming book, this research project's team of eight scholars based at the Universities of Otago, Canterbury and Lincoln, have produced over a hundred outputs in terms of refereed journal articles, book chapters and conference presentations.