Saving America's Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990 - Softcover

Dunlap, Thomas R.

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9780691006130: Saving America's Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990
Softcover
ISBN 10: 069100613X ISBN 13: 9780691006130
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

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From the Back Cover

"Imagine an American of the 1850s listening to our debates over wildlife and wilderness," proposes Thomas Dunlap. "Coming from a society that was seeking to kill every wolf on the continent, what could he make of our plans to reintroduce the timber wolf into parts of its old range?" This history of wildlife preservation efforts goes far beyond the "good vs. bad" approach to help us see how and why Americans felt the way they did about wild animals--and how and why they have changed. Illustrating his points by an account of our evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Dunlap shows how American attitdues toward nature have been transformed during the last century.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
069100613X
ISBN 13 
9780691006130
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240
Rating
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