{"title":"Marcy Norton","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarcy Norton offers a vivid exploration of history through the intersections of culture, environment, and power. Her works delve into the complexities of human relationships with the natural world, revealing how attitudes toward nature have shaped societies and their histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect meticulously researched narratives that blend historical scholarship with engaging storytelling, often illuminating lesser-known perspectives within the vast tapestry of History \u0026amp; Military studies. Her writing invites reflection on the broader forces that have influenced the course of human events.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-tame-and-the-wild-by-marcy-norton-9780674737525","title":"The Tame and the Wild","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were vaster than the oceans that had separated them. There is perhaps no better demonstration than the divide in their respective ways of relating to animals. In \u003ci\u003eThe Tame and the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, Marcy Norton tells a new history of the colonisation of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the centre of the story. She reveals that the encounters between European and Native American beliefs about animal life transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEuropeans' strategies and motives for conquest were inseparable from the horses that carried them in military campaigns and the dogs they deployed to terrorise Native peoples. Even more crucial were the sheep, cattle, pigs, and chickens whose flesh became food and whose skins became valuable commodities. Yet as central as the domestication of animals was to European plans in the Americas, Native peoples' own practices around animals proved just as crucial in shaping the world after 1492.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCultures throughout the Caribbean, Amazonia, and Mexico were deeply invested in familiarisation: the practice of capturing wild animals—not only parrots and monkeys but even tapir, deer, and manatee—and turning some of them into \"companion species.\" These taming practices not only influenced the way Indigenous people responded to human and nonhuman intruders but also transformed European culture itself, paving the way for both zoological science and the modern pet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000820285676,"sku":"9780674737525","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5877133482428.jpg?v=1763307255"},{"product_id":"the-tame-and-the-wild-by-marcy-norton-9780674303546","title":"The Tame and the Wild","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the first European colonisers arrived in the Americas, they were utterly dependent on the dogs and horses who assisted them in military campaigns, as well as the livestock who provided them with food and labour. These settlers were convinced that their use of domesticated animals made them superior to Indigenous peoples, who did not practise livestock agriculture. In \u003ci\u003eThe Tame and the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, however, Marcy Norton shows that Indigenous ways of relating to animals were as sophisticated—and consequential—as those developed by other peoples across the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike Europeans, Indigenous people throughout the Caribbean, Amazonia, and Mexico hunted wild animals. Yet, instead of raising domesticated livestock, Indigenous communities engaged in familiarisation: they captured and tamed wild animals—from monkeys and parrots to sloths and manatees—whom they made into kin. Familiarisation not only affected Indigenous responses to the invasions but also shaped European culture by influencing natural sciences and the emergence of the modern pet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA sweeping history of human-animal relationships in the centuries after 1492, \u003ci\u003eThe Tame and the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e explains the origins of a contemporary paradox: the fact that humans continue to create enormous suffering for some animals while enjoying companionship with others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562874650860,"sku":"9780674303546","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674303546-the-tame-and-the-wild.jpg?v=1776989382"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/marcy-norton.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}