States of Nature - Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Tina Loo is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext States of Nature is the first book to tell the story of the effort to save Canada's wildlife, looking at the changing substance, aims, and impacts of the conservation initiatives undertaken by government as well as private organizations and individuals during the twentieth century, before the emergence of the modern environmental movement. Zusammenfassung This multi-award-winning book is one of the first to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social! political! and historical roots. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Troubles with Nature / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Wild by Law: Animals, People, and the State to 19452 Make Way for Wildlife: Colonization, Resistance, and Transformation3 The Dominion of Father Goose: Local Knowledge and Wildlife Conservation4 The Hudson's Bay Company and Scientific Conservation5 Buffalo Burgers and Reindeer Steak: Government Wildlife Conservation in Postwar Canada6 Predators and Postwar Conservation7 From Wildlife to Wild PlacesConclusionPhoto EssayNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Tina Loo
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9780774812900
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1290-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Nature | History | Society; Nature - History - Society; Nature | History | Society; Nature History Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous