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Wild by nature : North American animals confront colonization /

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"From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals--from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison--appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smalley, Andrea L., 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Wildlife conservation > United States.
Animals > Effect of human beings on > United States.
Colonization (Ecology) > United States.
Nature conservation > United States > History.
Faune > Protection > États-Unis.
Colonisation (Écologie) > États-Unis.
Nature > Conservation > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
NATURE > Animals > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
HISTORY > Social History.
Animals > Effect of human beings on.
Colonization (Ecology)
Nature conservation.
Wildlife conservation.
United States.
Tiere
Kolonisation
Ökologie
Naturschutz
USA
History.
Online Access:Additional Information at Google Books
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Creatures serving for the use of man
  • No bullets would pierce beaver skins
  • Devouring anamulls
  • Incapable of separate or individual property
  • The liberty of killing a deer
  • In all their native freedom
  • Epilogue : rewilding the wild.