Extinction and the Human Four American Encounters.

In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna--mammoths, whales, and the North American bison...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sweet, Timothy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Series:Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science Ser.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Human-animal relationships > America > History.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Animals in literature.
Mammals > Effect of human beings on > America.
Whales > Effect of human beings on > America.
American bison > Effect of human beings on > America.
Extinction (Biology)
Extinction, Biological
Relations homme-animal > Amérique > Histoire.
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
Écologie humaine dans la littérature.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Mammifères > Effets de l'homme sur > Amérique.
Baleines > Effets de l'homme sur > Amérique.
Bison d'Amérique > Effets de l'homme sur > Amérique.
Extinction (Biologie)
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American literature
Animals in literature
Human-animal relationships
Human-animal relationships in literature
Human ecology in literature
America
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction. From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
  • Chapter 1. A Prehistory of Extinction
  • Chapter 2. Mammoths, the "Oeconomy of Nature," and Human Ecology
  • Chapter 3. Does the Whale Diminish? Will He Perish?
  • Chapter 4. Buffalo Commons, Buffalo Nation
  • Reprise. The Human Exception Revisited
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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