Abstract
After European settlement in Australia, possums and other marsupials were hunted and trapped for their skins. In the later part of the nineteenth century an international export trade developed to satisfy the growing demand for fashion furs in North America and Europe. Rather than indiscriminate slaughter, it was a socially and economically significant activity. This article traces the relationship between the colonial project, international fashion trends and social and economic demands of settler society. It situates Victoria and its native animal populations in a transnational story and places its environmental history within the greater global sphere.
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