Feral animals in the American South : an evolutionary history / Abraham Gibson, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Author
Gibson, Abraham, 1983- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
xiv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    Studies in environment and history [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "The relationship between humans and domestic animals has changed in dramatic ways over the ages, and those transitions have had profound consequences for all parties involved. As societies evolve, the selective pressures that shape domestic populations also change. Some animals retain close relationships with humans, but many do not. Those who establish residency in the wild, free from direct human control, are technically neither domestic nor wild: they are feral. If we really want to understand humanity's complex relationship with domestic animals, then we cannot simply ignore the ones who went feral. This is especially true in the American South, where social and cultural norms have facilitated and sustained large populations of feral animals for hundreds of years. Feral Animals in the American South retells southern history from this new perspective of feral animals."-- Publisher's website.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-221) and index.
    Contents
    • The trouble with ferality : domestication as coevolution and the nature of broken symbioses
    • Making and breaking acquaintances : the origins of wildness, domestication, and ferality in prehistoric Eurasia
    • When ferality reigned : establishing an open range in the colonial South
    • Nascent domestication initiatives and their effects on ferality : claiming dominion in the antebellum South
    • Anthropogenic improvement and assaults on ferality : divergent fates in the industrializing South
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781107156944 ((hardback))
    • 1107156947 ((hardback))
    • 9781316610091
    • 1316610098
    LCCN
    2016013387
    OCLC
    951190355
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