This work takes a look at the angry struggles between American conservationists and local hunters since the rise of wildlife conservation at the end of the 1800s. From Italian immigrants in Pennsylvania, to rural settlers and Indians in New Mexico, to Blackfeet in Montana, local hunters traditions of using wildlife have clashed with conservationist ideas of "proper" hunting for over a century. Louis Warren contends that these conflicts arose from deep social divisions and that the bitter history of conservation offers a new narrative for the history of the American West. At the heart of western - and American - history, Warren argues, is the transformation of many local resources, like wildlife, into "public goods", or "national commons". Warren concludes that the history of wildlife conservation sheds much light on the tensions between local and national priorities that pervade 20th-century culture.
- ISBN10 0300062060
- ISBN13 9780300062069
- Publish Date 13 November 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 234
- Language English