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• Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 (United States)

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. . . the richness of the information from obscure sources serves as an invaluable reference. This book provides a thought-provoking and interesting thesis . . . Recommended. Wild by Nature offers a wonderful example of the retellings that are possible if historians attend to animalhuman relationships as a significant category of investigation. It is an approachable and well-written book that will appeal to readers curious and eager to think in new ways about old stories. The author is a strong writer, and her practice of assigning action verbs to animals is surprisingly effective. In sum, this book deserves a wide readership in southern history, environmental history, and beyond. Succeeds in demonstrating that wild animals, by their very nature, challenged and changed colonial presumptions about human control over the process of North American colonization as expressed in legal regimes and private property. -Kerri Keller Clement, University of Colorado Boulder, Great Plains Research

Succeeds in demonstrating that wild animals, by their very nature, challenged and changed colonial presumptions about human control over the process of North American colonization as expressed in legal regimes and private property. -- Kerri Keller Clement, University of Colorado Boulder * Great Plains Research * The author is a strong writer, and her practice of assigning action verbs to animals is surprisingly effective. In sum, this book deserves a wide readership in southern history, environmental history, and beyond. * Journal of Southern History * Wild by Nature offers a wonderful example of the retellings that are possible if historians attend to animalhuman relationships as a significant category of investigation. It is an approachable and well-written book that will appeal to readers curious and eager to think in new ways about old stories. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly * . . . the richness of the information from obscure sources serves as an invaluable reference. This book provides a thought-provoking and interesting thesis . . . Recommended. * Choice *

. . . the richness of the information from obscure sources serves as an invaluable reference. This book provides a thought-provoking and interesting thesis . . . Recommended. * Choice * Wild by Nature offers a wonderful example of the retellings that are possible if historians attend to animalhuman relationships as a significant category of investigation. It is an approachable and well-written book that will appeal to readers curious and eager to think in new ways about old stories. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly * The author is a strong writer, and her practice of assigning action verbs to animals is surprisingly effective. In sum, this book deserves a wide readership in southern history, environmental history, and beyond. * Journal of Southern History * Succeeds in demonstrating that wild animals, by their very nature, challenged and changed colonial presumptions about human control over the process of North American colonization as expressed in legal regimes and private property. -- Kerri Keller Clement, University of Colorado Boulder * Great Plains Research *

... the richness of the information from obscure sources serves as an invaluable reference. This book provides a thought-provoking and interesting thesis... Recommended. * Choice *

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Andrea L. Smalley is an assistant professor of history at Northern Illinois University.

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