Abraham H Gibson

Feral Animals in the American South

An Evolutionary History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book retells American southern history from feral animals' perspective, examining social, cultural, and evolutionary consequences of domestication and feralization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781316610091
• ISBN-10: 1316610098
• Artikelnr.: 53216655

Autorenporträt

Abraham H. Gibson is a Fellow in Residence at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. He also teaches in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively and has earned fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Inhaltsangabe

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.