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Wild things : nature and the social imagination

Title: Wild things : nature and the social imagination / edited by William Beinart, Karen Middleton and Simon Pooley.
Publication: Cambridge, UK : The White Horse Press, [2013]

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303 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"Hunting with the camera": photography, animals and the technology of the chase in the Rocky Mountains / Karen Jones -- Hollywood in Africa 1947-62: imaginative construction and landscape realism / William Beinart and Dominique Schafer -- Livestock, identity and the social imagination in South Africa / Amy Halliday -- Building a scenic landscape: nature and history on the Columbia River Highway, 1913-1916 / Tyler A. Cornelius -- The hunted otter in Britain, 1830-1939 / Daniel Allen -- No tears for the crocodiles: representations of Nile crocodiles, and the extermination furore in Zululand, South Africa, from 1956-8 / Simon Pooley -- Science, "stars" and sustenance: the acquisition and display of animals at the Bristol Zoological Gardens, 1838-c. 1970 / Andrew J.P. Flack -- From poetry to politics: the romantic roots of the "German Forest" / Johannes Zechner -- Of trees and the political imagination in "neo-colonial" Madagascar / Karen Middleton -- On revolutionary dirt in Haiti / Lauren Derby -- Reshaping nature: underwater laboratories, ecology, and outer space in West Germany and the United States / Sven Asim Mesonovic.

Call Number

JFE 14-3683

ISBN

1874267758
9781874267751

OCLC

857276807

Title

Wild things : nature and the social imagination / edited by William Beinart, Karen Middleton and Simon Pooley.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK : The White Horse Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Beinart, William.

Middleton, Karen.

Pooley, Simon Preston, 1970-

Research Call Number

JFE 14-3683

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