Main entry:

Thistle, John, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Resettling the range : animals, ecologies, and human communities in British Columbia / John Thistle ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xxiii, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Nature, history, society

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.
1. Introduction -- -- pt. I: Wild Horses -- 2. Wrestling with wild horses -- 3. The biogeography of dispossession -- 4. Eradicating wild horses -- -- pt. II: Grasshoppers -- 5. Grappling with grasshoppers -- 6. Resisting randge monopoly -- 7. New enemies, enduring difficulties -- 8. Conclusion -- Appends.
Issued also in electronic format.
Text in English.

Summary:

"Explores the ecology and history of the grassland and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the claims of 'range improvement' and 'rational land use, ' Thistle uncovers more complicated stories of marginalization: the destruction of wild horses worked to dispossess aboriginal people and discredit their claims to land and resources, while the campaign to exterminate grasshoppers exposed long-standing class conflicts and competing versions of resettlement among immigrant ranchers. When settlers and governments separated environmental issues from their social and ecological contexts, they not only made their problems worse in many cases, but also created new ones that no one anticipated. This unconventional history examines the implications for humans and nature alike, in the process revealing a fascinating -- and troubling -- chapter of BC history."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780774828376 (bound)
0774828374
9780774828383
0774828382
(pdf)
9780774828390
(epub)
9780774828406

Subject:

Range ecology British Columbia History.
Grassland ecology British Columbia History.
Wild horses Ecology British Columbia History.
Grasshoppers Ecology British Columbia History.
Human ecology British Columbia History.
Wild horses British Columbia History.
Grasshoppers British Columbia History.
Écologie des pâturages Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Écologie des prairies Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Chevaux sauvages Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Acrididés Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Écologie humaine Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Chevaux sauvages Écologie Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Acrididés Écologie Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Wild horses
Grasshoppers
Ecology.
Grasshoppers Ecology.
Grassland ecology.
Human ecology.
Range ecology.
Wild horses Ecology.
British Columbia Environmental conditions.
Colombie-Britannique Conditions environnementales.
British Columbia.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Wynn, Graeme, 1946- writer of foreword.
Nature, history, society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 291780
Call No.: SF85.4.C3 T5 2015
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available