| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 404 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-377) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1. Lost animals: early eliminations by Man; 2. The social background to persecution; 3. To kill a Rat or catch a Kite: methods of control; 4. Killing in Scotland; 5. In on the Act -- searching the record; 6. Birds -- individual species accounts; 7. Mammals -- individual species accounts; 8. Local patterns of persecution: England and Wales; 9. The return of the natives; 10. Modern control -- legal and illegal; 11. Vermin control and wildlife management: where next?; Appendix 1: Summary table of vermin payments extracted from churchwardens' accounts. |
| Summary |
Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book documents the history of that battle in England and Wales from the Middle Ages, shedding a new light on the history of our much-loved wildlife. - ;Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book is about that war of attrition against the native mammals. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wildlife management -- Great Britain -- History.
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Wildlife management. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Britain -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Wildlife pests -- Control -- Great Britain -- History.
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Wildlife pests -- Control. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lovegrove, Roger. Silent fields. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780198520719 0198520719 (DLC) 2006039414 (OCoLC)76901821 |
| ISBN |
9780191513633 (electronic book) |
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0191513636 (electronic book) |
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9780198520719 (Cloth) |
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0198520719 (Cloth) |
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