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Game in the Garden : A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada To 1940.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774850384
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Game in the GardenDDC classification:
  • 333.95/4/09712
LOC classification:
  • QL85 -- .C64 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Game in the Garden -- Introduction -- 1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade -- 2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement -- 3 From Meat to Sport Hunting -- 4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance -- 5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western Canada -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Game in the Garden -- Introduction -- 1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade -- 2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement -- 3 From Meat to Sport Hunting -- 4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance -- 5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western Canada -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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