Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination<\/em>\u00a0assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n The imaginative (and actual) construction of landscapes and the appropriation of Nature \u2013 through image-fashioning, curating museum and zoo collections, making \u2018friends\u2019, \u2018enemies\u2019 and mythical symbols from animals \u2013 are recurring subjects. Among the volume\u2019s thought-provoking essays are a group enmeshing nature and the visual culture of photography and film. Canonical environmental history themes, from colonialism to conservation, are re-inflected by discourses including gender studies, Romanticism, politics and technology.<\/p>\n The loci of the studies included here represent both the microcosmic \u2013 underwater laboratory, zoo, film studio; and broad canvases \u2013 the German forest, the Rocky Mountains, the islands of Haiti and Madagascar. Their casts too are richly varied \u2013 from Britain\u2019s otters and Africa\u2019s Nile crocodiles to Hollywood film-makers and South African cattle. The volume represents an excitingly diverse collection of studies of how humans, in imagination and deed, act on and are acted on by \u2018wild things\u2019. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISBN 978-1-874267-75-1 (HB)
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