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Author:
Gibson, Abraham, 1983- author.
Title:
Feral animals in the American South : an evolutionary history / Abraham Gibson, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xiv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Feral animals--South Atlantic States--History.
Domestic animals--South Atlantic States--History.
Human-animal relationships--South Atlantic States--History.
Coevolution--South Atlantic States--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Series:
Studies in environment and history
ISBN:
1107156947 (hardback)
9781107156944 (hardback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)951190355
LCCN:
2016013387
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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