Feral animals in the American South : an evolutionary history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibson, Abraham, 1983- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:	Studies in environment and history.
Subjects:	Coevolution > South Atlantic States > History. Domestic animals > South Atlantic States > History. Feral animals > South Atlantic States > History. Human-animal relationships > South Atlantic States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. The trouble with ferality : domestication as coevolution and the nature of broken symbioses
2. Making and breaking acquaintances : the origins of wildness, domestication, and ferality in prehistoric Eurasia
3. When ferality reigned : establishing an open range in the colonial South
4. Nascent domestication initiatives and their effects on ferality : claiming dominion in the antebellum South
5. Anthropogenic improvement and assaults on ferality : divergent fates in the industrializing South
6. Everything in its right place : wild, domestic, and feral populations in the modern South
Epilogue. Cultivating ferality in the anthropocene : lessons for the American South and beyond.