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Author Norton, Marcy, author.

Title The tame and the wild : people and animals after 1492 / Marcy Norton
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2024]
©2024

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Description 1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Part I. Subject And Object -- Chapter 1. Hunting Subjects -- Chapter 2. Objectifying Livestock -- Chapter 3. Conquering Animals -- Chapter 4. Absorbing Prey -- Part II. Tame And Wild -- Chapter 5. Taming Strangers -- Chapter 6. Hunting Ecologies -- Chapter 7. Nourishing Bodies -- Part III. Entanglements -- Chapter 8. Transforming Animals -- Chapter 9. Adopting Domesticates -- Chapter 10. Becoming Pets -- Chapter 11. Indigenizing Science -- Epilogue
Summary Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She reveals that it was, above all, the encounters between European and Native American beliefs about animal life that transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2023)
Subject Human-animal relationships -- America -- History
Human-animal relationships -- Europe -- History
Animals and civilization -- America -- History
Animals and civilization -- Europe -- History
Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
Europeans -- First contact with other peoples.
Human ecology -- Europe -- History
Human ecology -- America -- History
Indians -- Colonization
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Animals and civilization.
Colonization.
Europeans -- First contact with other peoples.
Human-animal relationships.
Human ecology.
Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
SUBJECT America -- Colonization
Subject America.
Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0674295285
9780674295285