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From “Nazi Cows” to Cosmopolitan “Ecological Engineers”: Specifying Rewilding Through a History of Heck Cattle

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Pages 631-652 | Received 01 Dec 2014, Accepted 01 Jun 2015, Published online: 29 Jan 2016

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