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Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization
Andrea L. Smalley
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Description for Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization
Hardback. Offering fresh perspectives on colonial, legal, environmental, and Native American history, Wild by Nature reenvisions the familiar stories of early America as animal tales. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12, 2 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JFFZ; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. .
From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals-from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison-appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters routinely advertised the richness of the American faunal environment and speculated about the ways in which animals could be made to serve their colonial projects. In practice, however, American animals proved far less malleable to colonizers' designs. Their behaviors constrained an English colonial vision of a reinvented and rationalized American landscape. In ... Read more
From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals-from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison-appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters routinely advertised the richness of the American faunal environment and speculated about the ways in which animals could be made to serve their colonial projects. In practice, however, American animals proved far less malleable to colonizers' designs. Their behaviors constrained an English colonial vision of a reinvented and rationalized American landscape. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421422350
SKU
V9781421422350
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About Andrea L. Smalley
Andrea L. Smalley is an assistant professor of history at Northern Illinois University.
Reviews for Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization
... the richness of the information from obscure sources serves as an invaluable reference. This book provides a thought-provoking and interesting thesis... Recommended.
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Wild by Nature offers a wonderful example of the retellings that are possible if historians attend to animalhuman relationships as a significant category of investigation. It is an approachable and well-written book that will ... Read more
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Wild by Nature offers a wonderful example of the retellings that are possible if historians attend to animalhuman relationships as a significant category of investigation. It is an approachable and well-written book that will ... Read more