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Wild by Nature - North American Animals Confront Colonization (Hardcover)
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Wild by Nature - North American Animals Confront Colonization (Hardcover)
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From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the
closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals-from
beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison-appeared as a recurring
theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors,
naturalists, and other promoters routinely advertised the richness
of the American faunal environment and speculated about the ways in
which animals could be made to serve their colonial projects. In
practice, however, American animals proved far less malleable to
colonizers' designs. Their behaviors constrained an English
colonial vision of a reinvented and rationalized American
landscape. In Wild by Nature, Andrea L. Smalley argues that
Anglo-American authorities' unceasing efforts to convert indigenous
beasts into colonized creatures frequently produced unsettling
results that threatened colonizers' control over the land and the
people. Not simply acted upon by being commodified, harvested, and
exterminated, wild animals were active subjects in the colonial
story, altering its outcome in unanticipated ways. These creatures
became legal actors-subjects of statutes, issues in court cases,
and parties to treaties-in a centuries-long colonizing process that
was reenacted on successive wild animal frontiers. Following a
trail of human-animal encounters from the seventeenth-century
Chesapeake to the Civil War-era southern plains, Smalley shows how
wild beasts and their human pursuers repeatedly transgressed the
lines lawmakers drew to demarcate colonial sovereignty and control,
confounding attempts to enclose both people and animals inside a
legal frame. She also explores how, to possess the land, colonizers
had to find new ways to contain animals without destroying the
wildness that made those creatures valuable to English settler
societies in the first place. Offering fresh perspectives on
colonial, legal, environmental, and Native American history, Wild
by Nature reenvisions the familiar stories of early America as
animal tales.
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