
Fairytale in Question
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Content
- Front Cover
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Introduction: Wolves and Humans in History
- Bibliography
- War-Time, Wolf-Time. Material-Semiotic Knots in the Chronicles of the Thirty Years' War
- Introduction
- Crisis of the Social - Crisis of Nature
- Wolf Reports - Wolf Encounters
- Wolf Metaphors - Wolf Narratives
- Summary
- Bibliography
- The Belief in Werewolves and the Extermination of Real Wolves in Schleswig-Holstein
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- Bibliography
- The Wolf War in Sweden during the Eighteenth Century - Strategies, Measures and Leaders
- The Wolf War
- 1647 - The Starting Point
- Power and Disputes
- Organisation of the Wolf War
- On the Battlefield
- Engaging the People
- Poison - the Final Solution?
- Constant Improvements
- Pitfall Traps
- The Swedish System
- Information to Citizens
- The Carrot and Stick Approach
- Conclusions
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgement
- Bibliography
- The Story of a Man-Eating Beast in Dauphiné, France (1746-1756)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data
- 3. A Man-eating Beast in Bas-Dauphiné (1746-1756)
- 4. Searching for the Beast, Killing the Wolf
- 5. The Depredation and its Context
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Where is the Big Bad Wolf? Notes and Narratives on Wolves in Swedish Newspapers during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Introduction
- Extermination: Methods and Statistics
- The Wolf as Monster
- Rabid Wolves
- Wolf Narratives
- Attacks on Humans
- The Fear
- The Critics
- Where is the Big Bad Wolf?
- Bibliography
- Reconstructing the Extermination of Wolves in Germany. Case Studies from Brandenburg and Rhineland-Palatinate
- Introduction
- Methods of Wolf Persecution
- Wolf Extermination
- Changing Perceptions
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Historical Decline (and Persistence) of the Grey Wolf in Spain
- Introduction: The Iberian scene
- Rise and Fall in a Transformed Landscape
- Wolf-Traps in Spain, an Ethnographic Heritage
- Trends in Range and Numbers
- Drivers, Processes and the Future
- Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- British Programmes for the Extermination of the Indian Wolf, c. 1870-1915
- Introduction
- Targeting the Wolf for Extermination
- Explanations for the Rise in Wolf Predation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Writing the Wolf: Canine Tales and North American Environmental-Literary Tradition
- 'Into the Primitive': Seton, London, and the Cult of the Wild
- 'The Idealized Story of a Wolf Family': Mowat, Caras and the Nurturing of Ecological Conscience
- The Return of the Native: Tales of Wolf Recovery and Restor(y)ation
- From Saving to Knowing?
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- The Shifting Iconography of Wolves over the Twentieth Century
- Introduction
- Background
- Science and Social Discourse
- Method
- Results
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Alaska Wild? Wolves in America's Last Frontier
- Wolves, Wildness, and the Last Frontier
- Alaska: Pre-Statehood
- Alaska: Post-Statehood Policy
- Lethal Control
- Wolf Management Today
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Not an Easy Road to Success: The History of Exploitation and Restoration of the Wolf Population in Poland after World War Two
- Introduction
- The War with Wolves
- Awakening Awareness
- Success ... and What Next?
- Future Perspectives
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- If You Wander in Winter, They Will Eat You: Local Knowledge, Wolves and Justice in Central Asia
- INTRODUCTION
- WOLF ATTACKS IN CENTRAL ASIA
- Why are Wolf Attacks a Problem of Justice?
- Knowledge, Power and Justice
- Care and Concern with Knowledge Claims
- The Unusually Dangerous Tibetan Wolf?
- Creating Dangerous Nature
- Injustice All Around
- Conclusion: Remedying Justice and Conservation in the Wakhan
- Bibliography
- Hierarchy, Intrusion and the Anthropomorphism of Nature: Hunter and Rancher Discourse on North American Wolves
- Background
- Discursive Themes
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Author Biographies
- Index
- Back cover
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