TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction James Beattie 1 Political agitation for forest conservation: Victoria, 1860–1960 Stephen Legg 7 Wartime political ambition behind one image of a dam in Australia is Developing a Dust Bowl (1943): US/Australian film imagery, environment, and nationalist storytelling Janette-Susan Bailey 35 New perspectives on methodology in garden history: Approaches towards writing about imported medicinal plants in colonial New Zealand Joanna Bishop 79 The Tuntian system in Xinjiang under the Qing Dynasty: A perspective from environmental history Ts’ui-jung Liu and I-chun Fan 99 Epizootics and the colonial legacies of the United States in Philippine veterinary science Arleigh Ross D. Dela Cruz 143 International Review of Environmental History is published by ANU Press The Australian National University Acton ACT 2601, Australia Email:
[email protected] This title is available online at press.anu.edu.au ISSN 2205-3204 (print) ISSN 2205-3212 (online) Cover design and layout by ANU Press. Cover image: Dorothea Lange, Abandoned Dust Bowl Home. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program. © 2016 ANU Press Editor: James Beattie, History, University of Waikato & Research Associate, Centre for Environmental History, The Australian National University Associate Editor: Brett M. Bennett, Western Sydney University Editorial Board: • Maohong Bao包茂宏, Peking University • Nancy Jacobs, Brown University • Greg Barton, Western Sydney University • Ryan Tucker Jones, University of Auckland • Tom Brooking, University of Otago