Saving America's Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990

by Thomas Dunlap

Overview

Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691224275
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	02/09/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	239
File size:	1 MB

Editorial Reviews

Between the mid-19th century, when wolves, coyotes and other predator animals were indiscriminately slaughtered, and the present day, when efforts to reintroduce these animals into the wild are well under way, lie years of radical change in American attitudes toward wildlife. Dunlap, author of DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy, traces this change, describing developments in ecology and the humane movement that have affected government policies. Concentrating on the fate of wolves and coyotes, he shows that naturalists, lobbying through books, magazine articles, television and movies, have helped awaken the public to the value of these animals and bring about programs for preserving them. The book puts into perspective our changing ideas about nature and demonstrates how difficult and complicated are the processes of making and enforcing laws to protect the envirnoment. (June)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

"Beginning with nineteenth-century underpinnings to wildlife conservation, Thomas R. Dunlap's interesting book explores how we have deepened our commitment to and broadened the scope of animal conservation through the 1980s.... A well-written and effective statement."—-Robin W. Doughty, The Journal of American History

"Dunlap uses animals to tell a fable about human values.... The fabular quality of the book comes through in its slim size, its deft distillation of mountains of source material, its frequently epigrammatic language, and its singular focus on how science has revolutionized the intellectual and mythic landscape of American civilization."—-Stephen J. Pyne, Pacific Northwest Quarterly

"A major contribution to American intellectual and environmental history."—-Roderick Frazier Nash, Western Historical Quarterly

From the Publisher

A major contribution to American intellectual and environmental history.

Western Historical Quarterly - Roderick Frazier Nash

Dunlap uses animals to tell a fable about human values.... The fabular quality of the book comes through in its slim size, its deft distillation of mountains of source material, its frequently epigrammatic language, and its singular focus on how science has revolutionized the intellectual and mythic landscape of American civilization.

Pacific Northwest Quarterly - Stephen J. Pyne

Beginning with nineteenth-century underpinnings to wildlife conservation, Thomas R. Dunlap's interesting book explores how we have deepened our commitment to and broadened the scope of animal conservation through the 1980s.... A well-written and effective statement.

The Journal of American History - Robin W. Doughty

A major contribution to American intellectual and environmental history.
— Roderick Frazier Nash

Western Historical Quarterly

Dunlap uses animals to tell a fable about human values.... The fabular quality of the book comes through in its slim size, its deft distillation of mountains of source material, its frequently epigrammatic language, and its singular focus on how science has revolutionized the intellectual and mythic landscape of American civilization.
— Stephen J. Pyne

Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Beginning with nineteenth-century underpinnings to wildlife conservation, Thomas R. Dunlap's interesting book explores how we have deepened our commitment to and broadened the scope of animal conservation through the 1980s.... A well-written and effective statement.
— Robin W. Doughty

The Journal of American History