{"product_id":"9781874267751","title":"Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination","description":"HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATURE\u003cbr\u003eWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe imaginative (and actual) construction of landscapes and the appropriation of Nature - through image-fashioning, curating museum and zoo collections, making 'friends', 'enemies' and mythical symbols from animals - are recurring subjects. Among the volume's 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe loci of the studies included here represent both the microcosmic - underwater laboratory, zoo, film studio; and broad canvases - the German forest, the Rocky Mountains, the islands of Haiti and Madagascar. Their casts too are richly varied - from Britain's otters and Africa's 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 'wild things'.","brand":"White Horse Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039410045168,"sku":"9781874267751","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781874267751_p0.jpg?v=1763602216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781874267751","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}