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Feral animals in the American South : an evolutionary history / Abraham Gibson, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
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Gibson, Abraham, 1983-
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English
Published/Created
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
©2016
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xiv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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SF140.F47 G53 2016
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Feral animals
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South Atlantic States
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History
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Domestic animals
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South Atlantic States
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History
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Human-animal relationships
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South Atlantic States
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History
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Coevolution
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South Atlantic States
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History
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Series
Studies in environment and history
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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.
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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.
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ISBN
9781107156944 ((hardback))
1107156947 ((hardback))
9781316610091
1316610098
LCCN
2016013387
OCLC
951190355
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