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Wildlife, land, and people : a century of change in Prairie Canada /
A wide-ranging study of people's diverse and often contradictory relationships with wild animals in the prairie provinces after 1870.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Carleton library series ;
238. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- The Animals and the Place
- The State of Things: Wildlife, Land, and People after 1870
- Thinking about Animals
- Some Perspectives on Animal Behaviour
- Friends and Foes
- Connections
- A Pursuit of Utility: The State and Wildlife
- Eating Wild Animals
- Hunting as Sport: Ideals and Practice
- Reconstructing Nature: Acclimatizing Animals for the Wild
- It's a War: Farming and Wildlife
- First Nations, the State, and the Economy of Wildlife
- Economics and Nostalgia: Encounters with Fur-Bearers
- The Spectacle of Nature: Wildlife and the National Parks
- Rounding Out a Full Life: Traditions of Natural History
- Displaying Wild Animals
- Conclusion: Fitting and Not Fitting Together
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index