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Book SynopsisOffering fresh perspectives on colonial, legal, environmental, and Native American history, Wild by Nature reenvisions the familiar stories of early America as animal tales.
Trade Review. . . the richness of the information from obscure sources serves as an invaluable reference. This book provides a thought-provoking and interesting thesis . . . Recommended.
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ChoiceWild by Nature offers a wonderful example of the retellings that are possible if historians attend to animalhuman relationships as a significant category of investigation. It is an approachable and well-written book that will appeal to readers curious and eager to think in new ways about old stories.
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Southwestern Historical QuarterlyThe author is a strong writer, and her practice of assigning action verbs to animals is surprisingly effective. In sum, this book deserves a wide readership in southern history, environmental history, and beyond.
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Journal of Southern HistorySucceeds in demonstrating that wild animals, by their very nature, challenged and changed colonial presumptions about human control over the process of North American colonization as expressed in legal regimes and private property.
—Kerri Keller Clement, University of Colorado Boulder,
Great Plains ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Creatures Serving for the Use of Man2. No Bullets Would Pierce Beaver Skins3. Devouring Anamulls4. Incapable of Separate or Individual Property5. The Liberty of Killing a Deer6. In All Their Native Freedom7. Epilogue: Rewilding the WildBibliographyIndex
