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A Fairytale in Question : Historical Interactions between Humans and Wolves.
A collection of essays placing the human-wolf relationship in historical perspective.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winwick, Cambridgeshire :
The White Horse Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Organisation of the Wolf WarOn the Battlefield; Engaging the People; Poison
- the Final Solution?; Constant Improvements; Pitfall Traps; The Swedish System; Information to Citizens; The Carrot and Stick Approach ; Conclusions; Epilogue; Acknowledgement; Bibliography; The Story of a Man-Eating Beast in Dauphiné, France (1746-1756); 1. Introduction; 2. Data ; 3. A Man-eating Beast in Bas-Dauphiné (1746-1756); 4. Searching for the Beast, Killing the Wolf; 5. The Depredation and its Context; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography.
- Where is the Big Bad Wolf? Notes and Narratives on Wolves in Swedish Newspapers during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesIntroduction; Extermination: Methods and Statistics; The Wolf as Monster; Rabid Wolves; Wolf Narratives; Attacks on Humans; The Fear; The Critics; Where is the Big Bad Wolf?; Bibliography; Reconstructing the Extermination of Wolves in Germany. Case Studies from Brandenburg and Rhineland-Palatinate; Introduction; Methods of Wolf Persecution; Wolf Extermination; Changing Perceptions; Conclusion; Bibliography.
- Historical Decline (and Persistence) of the Grey Wolf in SpainIntroduction: The Iberian scene; Rise and Fall in a Transformed Landscape; Wolf-Traps in Spain, an Ethnographic Heritage; Trends in Range and Numbers; Drivers, Processes and the Future; Summary; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; British Programmes for the Extermination of the Indian Wolf, c. 1870-1915; Introduction; Targeting the Wolf for Extermination; Explanations for the Rise in Wolf Predation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Writing the Wolf: Canine Tales and North American Environmental-Literary Tradition.
- 'Into the Primitive': Seton, London, and the Cult of the Wild 'The Idealized Story of a Wolf Family': Mowat, Caras and the Nurturing of Ecological Conscience; The Return of the Native: Tales of Wolf Recovery and Restor(y)ation; From Saving to Knowing?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; The Shifting Iconography of Wolves over the Twentieth Century; Introduction; Background; Science and Social Discourse; Method; Results; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Alaska Wild? Wolves in America's Last Frontier; Wolves, Wildness, and the Last Frontier; Alaska: Pre-Statehood; Alaska: Post-Statehood Policy.