Wild by Nature : North American Animals Confront Colonization /

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"Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smalley, Andrea L., 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Faune > Protection > États-Unis.
Colonisation (Écologie) > États-Unis.
Nature > Conservation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Wildlife conservation.
Nature conservation.
Colonization (Ecology)
Animals > Effect of human beings on.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
NATURE > Animals > General.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Nature conservation > United States > History.
Colonization (Ecology) > United States.
Animals > Effect of human beings on > United States.
Wildlife conservation > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction ; 1. Creatures Serving for the Use of Man ; 2. No Bullets Would Pierce Beaver Skins ; 3. Devouring Anamulls ; 4. Incapable of Separate or Individual Property ; 5. The Liberty of Killing a Deer ; 6. In All Their Native Freedom ; Epilogue: Rewilding the Wild ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; A ; B ; C ; D ; E ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; Y ; Z.

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