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This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.

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Part of the challenge of conserving biological diversity in the 21st century, Colpitts argues, will be to grapple with old, utilitarian understandings of nature and wildlife. [Game in the Garden] is well and clearly written, a solid attempt at developing those very understandings. -- Terry Glavin * Discovery, Spring 2003 *

Table of Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade

2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement

3 From Meat to Sport Hunting

4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance

5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection Conclusion

Appendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western Canada

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 31/10/2002
      ISBN13: 9780774809627, 978-0774809627
      ISBN10: 0774809620
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.

      Trade Review
      Part of the challenge of conserving biological diversity in the 21st century, Colpitts argues, will be to grapple with old, utilitarian understandings of nature and wildlife. [Game in the Garden] is well and clearly written, a solid attempt at developing those very understandings. -- Terry Glavin * Discovery, Spring 2003 *

      Table of Contents

      Illustrations and Tables

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade

      2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement

      3 From Meat to Sport Hunting

      4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance

      5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection Conclusion

      Appendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western Canada

      Notes

      Selected Bibliography

      Index

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