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""[M]eticulously researched and steeped in contemporary theory...This fascinating, important book is a vital contribution to the developing field of extinction studies within the environmental humanities."" - Choice ""Timothy Sweet has deep experience thinking about the intersection of American environmental, cultural, and intellectual history, from the first decades of European colonization through the nineteenth century. He is perfectly prepared to tackle questions around megafauna extinction narratives and debates in the Americas. Extinction and the Human is compelling, learned, wide-ranging, trustworthy, and thorough."" - Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan ""Timothy Sweet has written a richly researched, theoretically sophisticated, and ultimately engrossing book. Filled with scenes of literary and cultural exchange, his accounts of the near or complete extinction of mastodons, whales, and bison have the power to stop us in our tracks, forcing us to rethink the roles and relationships of the human and nonhuman in new, sometimes visceral ways."" - Randall Fuller, University of Kansas

""[M]eticulously researched and steeped in contemporary theory...This fascinating, important book is a vital contribution to the developing field of extinction studies within the environmental humanities.""-- ""Choice"" ""Timothy Sweet has written a richly researched, theoretically sophisticated, and ultimately engrossing book. Filled with scenes of literary and cultural exchange, his accounts of the near or complete extinction of mastodons, whales, and bison have the power to stop us in our tracks, forcing us to rethink the roles and relationships of the human and nonhuman in new, sometimes visceral ways.""-- ""Randall Fuller, University of Kansas"" ""Timothy Sweet has deep experience thinking about the intersection of American environmental, cultural, and intellectual history, from the first decades of European colonization through the nineteenth century. He is perfectly prepared to tackle questions around megafauna extinction narratives and debates in the Americas. Extinction and the Human is compelling, learned, wide-ranging, trustworthy, and thorough.""-- ""Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan""

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Timothy Sweet is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature, West Virginia University and author of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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