Extinction and the human : four American encounters / Timothy Sweet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweet, Timothy, 1960- author.

Series:

Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extinction (Biology).

America.

Genre:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Extinction and the Human brings some of the human/animal distinction's motivating concerns-morality, communicability, historical destiny, sovereignty-to case studies of human-animal relations in which animal species have become extinct or endangered. This book focuses on mammoths, whales, and the North American bison beginning with the moments that these species' extinction or endangerment began to generate significant print archives. Throughout the cases in this book, various accounts of the distribution of agency and responsibility give rise to different accounts of the human role with respect to nonhumans"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene.

A prehistory of extinction

Mammoths, the "Oeconomy of Nature", and human ecology

Does the whale diminish? will he perish?

Buffalo commons, buffalo nation

Reprise. The human exception revisited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812298055

0812298055

OCLC:

1276858138