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Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies
Michael D. Wise
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Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 1KBCL; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL9; RNF; RNKH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
In Producing Predators, Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects, but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies.
By targeting wolves and other wild carnivores for extermination, cattle ranchers disavowed the predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter, representing it instead as productive work. Meanwhile, federal agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot, ... Read more
In Producing Predators, Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects, but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies.
By targeting wolves and other wild carnivores for extermination, cattle ranchers disavowed the predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter, representing it instead as productive work. Meanwhile, federal agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803249813
SKU
V9780803249813
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About Michael D. Wise
Michael D. Wise is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas.
Reviews for Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies
“Producing Predators is an interesting, well-written, and informative account of the Northern Rockies ecosystem. . . . Specialists will find it a well-executed study of colonialism in the American West.”—Adam Sowards, director of the Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies at University of Idaho