Wild things
Subtitle: nature and the social imagination
By: edited by William Beinart, Karen Middleton and Simon Pooley
Publisher: The White Horse Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781874267751
Subjects: Nature and civilization; Nature; Social aspects; Animals and civilization; Animals; Natur; Naturerlebnis; Umwelt; Kunst; Kolonialismus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Hunting with the camera": photography, animals and the technology of the chase in the Rocky Mountains / Karen Jones; title: Hollywood in Africa 1947-62: imaginative construction and landscape realism / William Beinart and Dominique Schafer; title: Livestock, identity and the social imagination in South Africa / Amy Halliday; title: Building a scenic landscape: nature and history on the Columbia River Highway, 1913-1916 / Tyler A. Cornelius; title: The hunted otter in Britain, 1830-1939 / Daniel Allen; title: No tears for the crocodiles: representations of Nile crocodiles, and the extermination furore in Zululand, South Africa, from 1956-8 / Simon Pooley; title: Science, "stars" and sustenance: the acquisition and display of animals at the Bristol Zoological Gardens, 1838-c. 1970 / Andrew J.P. Flack; title: From poetry to politics: the romantic roots of the "German Forest" / Johannes Zechner; title: Of trees and the political imagination in "neo-colonial" Madagascar / Karen Middleton; title: On revolutionary dirt in Haiti / Lauren Derby; title: Reshaping nature: underwater laboratories, ecology, and outer space in West Germany and the United States / Sven Asim Mesonovic.