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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Abraham, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in environment and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feral animals--South Atlantic States--History.

Feral animals.

Domestic animals--South Atlantic States--History.

Domestic animals.

Human-animal relationships--South Atlantic States--History.

Human-animal relationships.

Coevolution--South Atlantic States--History.

Coevolution.

Feral mammals.

History.

United States--South Atlantic States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781107156944

1107156947

OCLC:

951190355

Publisher Number:

99970609418