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James Beattie, Senior Lecturer, History Programme, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, Waikato, New Zealand, jbeattie@waikato.ac.nz. He publishes on Asian and Australasian imperial environmental history, Chinese art collecting, garden history and the history of science. Current projects include: Chinoiserie in Australasia (with Duncan Campbell); Australasian garden history (with Katie Holmes); Dunedin Chinese Garden (with Campbell) and Empire and Environmental Anxiety, 1800-1920 to be published by Palgrave in 2010. Paul Star, formerly Department of History, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, starmulq@ihug.co.nz. He has published widely on New Zealand environmental history, contributing a chapter to the New Oxford History of New Zealand (2009) and co-authoring three chapters in the forthcoming Seeds of Empire, to be published by I.B. Tauris in 2010. Current projects include: private and public afforestation in New Zealand; the role of nurserymen and others in global plant and animal transfers.

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