The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes
with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is
almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became
increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of
food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants
were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up
products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New
Zealand this process was carried to an extreme, with forest cleared
and swamps drained. How, why and with what consequences did the
transformation of New Zealand into these empires of grass occur?
'Seeds of Empire' provides both an exciting appraisal of New
Zealand's environmental history and a long overdue exploration of
the significance of grass in the processes of sowing empire.
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