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Author Wetherell, Donald G. (Donald Grant), 1949- author

Title Wildlife, land, and people : a century of change in Prairie Canada / David G. Wetherell
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Carleton library series ; 238
Carleton library series ; 238.
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- The Animals and the Place -- The State of Things: Wildlife, Land, and People after 1870 -- Thinking about Animals -- Some Perspectives on Animal Behaviour -- Friends and Foes -- Connections -- A Pursuit of Utility: The State and Wildlife -- Eating Wild Animals -- Hunting as Sport: Ideals and Practice -- Reconstructing Nature: Acclimatizing Animals for the Wild -- It's a War: Farming and Wildlife -- First Nations, the State, and the Economy of Wildlife -- Economics and Nostalgia: Encounters with Fur-Bearers -- The Spectacle of Nature: Wildlife and the National Parks -- Rounding Out a Full Life: Traditions of Natural History -- Displaying Wild Animals -- Conclusion: Fitting and Not Fitting Together -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary A wide-ranging study of people's diverse and often contradictory relationships with wild animals in the prairie provinces after 1870
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human-animal relationships -- Prairie Provinces -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Prairie Provinces -- History
Animal ecology -- Prairie Provinces -- History
Human ecology -- Prairie Provinces -- History
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
Animal ecology
Human-animal relationships
Human ecology
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
SUBJECT Prairie Provinces -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93009540
Subject Prairie Provinces
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773599888
0773599886
9780773599895
0773599894