Vicious by Jon T Coleman
Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves' misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans' thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America - and of the humans who have hated and then loved them - Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.
"This is a bold, smart, and original book, written with verve and imaginationFar more than a history of wolves in America, it is a meditation on the meanings of time, history, and culture and an inquiry into the nature of cruelty and hatred." Andrew Cayton, Miami University "A remarkably well-written, provocative, and insightful work of history on a timely and important topic." Alan Taylor, University of California at Davis "A fabulous book. Coleman is a witty, incisive writer who has unearthed a new history for America's hate-love relationship with wolves. This is a work of exceptional ambition at the cutting edge of environmental history." Louis Warren, author of Hunter's Game"
Coleman, Jon T.: - Jon T. Coleman is a professor of American history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation (Hill and Wang, 2012) and Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, which won the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize. Coleman lives in South Bend, Indiana.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300103908 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300103905 |
| Title | Vicious |
| Author | Jon T Coleman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2004-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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