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Overview"A provocative history of wolves in America and of the humans who first destroyed them and now offer them protection “A shocking cultural study of our long, sadistic crusade against wolves. Moving brilliantly through history, economics, and biology, Coleman...explains America’s fevered obsession with these animals.""—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans’ thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and then loved them—Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jon T. ColemanPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780300119725ISBN 10: 0300119720 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 31 October 2006 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""Coleman writes vividly... This rich study is less about the emergence of environmentalism than the persistence of history."" Tristan Quinn, Times Literary Supplement ""With lively prose and copious detail Coleman deftly weaves together the histories of settler and lupine societies... Provocative, scholarly, and readable."" Karen R. Jones, Journal of American History ""Thoughtfully conceived, insightful, and well written, Vicious is a wicked good read."" Andrew Kirk, Montana: The Magazine of Western History""" Coleman writes vividly... This rich study is less about the emergence of environmentalism than the persistence of history. Tristan Quinn, Times Literary Supplement With lively prose and copious detail Coleman deftly weaves together the histories of settler and lupine societies... Provocative, scholarly, and readable. Karen R. Jones, Journal of American History Thoughtfully conceived, insightful, and well written, Vicious is a wicked good read. Andrew Kirk, Montana: The Magazine of Western History Author InformationJon T. Coleman teaches history at the University of Notre Dame. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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