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Contents

Figures

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Preface

PART ONE: THE ANIMALS AND THE PLACE

1 The State of Things: Wildlife, Land, and People after 1870

PART TWO: THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS

2 Some Perspectives on Animal Behaviour

3 Friends and Foes

PART THREE: CONNECTIONS

4 A Pursuit of Utility: The State and Wildlife

5 Eating Wild Animals

6 Hunting as Sport: Ideals and Practice

7 Reconstructing Nature: Acclimatizing Animals for the Wild

8 It’s a War: Farming and Wildlife

9 First Nations, the State, and the Economy of Wildlife

10 Economics and Nostalgia: Encounters with Fur-Bearers

11 The Spectacle of Nature: Wildlife and the National Parks

12 Rounding Out a Full Life: Traditions of Natural History

13 Displaying Wild Animals

Conclusion: Fitting and Not Fitting Together

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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