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Genre/Form: | History Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme) Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme) |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Colpitts |
OCLC Number: | 757056369 |
Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 10 oct. 2008). |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement3 From Meat to Sport Hunting4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection ConclusionAppendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western CanadaNotesSelected BibliographyIndex |
Responsibility: | George Colpitts. |
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Part of the challenge of conserving biological diversity in the 21st century, Colpitts argues, will be to grapple with old, utilitarian understandings of nature and wildlife. [Game in the Garden] is well and clearly written, a solid attempt at developing those very understandings. -- Terry Glavin * Discovery, Spring 2003 * Read more...
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