People and Nature in North America

Question 1

‘Battle of Pests’ - explain

Answer 1

labels applied to people, and applied by authoroitative regimes.

evokes disgust

transmit disease

scavengers as uncivilised

pest control - how humans fumigate pests as colonisers or invaders

Question 2

who wrote Mosquitopia and what did they argue?

Answer 2

Marcus Hall - who are we to choose whcih creatures should and shouldn’t live, change our ways of categorisation

Question 3

who wrote ‘The Mosquito’ & key quotes

Answer 3

D.H. Lawrence

“devilry; evil little aura; filthy magic”

Question 4

examples of other outlawed animals?

Answer 4

Buffalo, Grey Squirrels, Nutria, Crayfish

Question 5

Who wrote about Muskrats?

Answer 5

Peter Coates

Question 6

who wrote about Buffalo?

Answer 6

Karen jones

Question 7

Who wrote about Buffalo bill and painted him as the epitome of maleness?

Answer 7

Henry Davies in 1871

Question 8

What is the importance of Buffalo Bill

Answer 8

introduced Americans to the outlaw lifestyle

cowboy/Indian trope

outlawry as theatre

reception history

Question 9

General Sheridan key thought

Answer 9

viewed the extinction of BUffalo as a victory over the Natives

Question 10

Who talks about outlawingh through National Parks?

Answer 10

William Cronan

Question 11

What does William Cronan say about national parks

Answer 11

absence of humans critical to our concept of ‘wild’

Natives removed to make wilderness places.