The historical animal /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Description:	ix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Human-animal relationships -- History. Animals -- Social aspects -- History. Animals -- Social aspects. Human-animal relationships. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10884969

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Other authors / contributors:	Nance, Susan.
ISBN:	9780815634065 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0815634064 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780815634287 (cloth : alk. paper) 0815634285 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780815653394 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-392) and index.
Summary:	The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens to discover how animals have altered the course of our collective past. The seventeen scholars gathered here present case studies from the Pacific Ocean, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, involving species ranging from gorillas and horses to salamanders and orcas. Together they seek out new methodologies, questions, and stories that challenge accepted historical assumptions and structures. Drawing upon environmental, social, and political history, the contributors employ research from such wide-ranging fields as philosophy and veterinary medicine, embracing a radical interdisciplinarity that is crucial to understanding our nonhuman past. Grounded in the knowledge that there has never been a purely human time in world history, this collection asks and answers an incredibly urgent question for historians and others interested in the nonhuman past: in an age of mass extinctions, mass animal captivity, and climate change, when we know much of what animals have done in the past, which of our activities will we want to change in the future?--Publisher website.
Standard no.:	40025377364

Table of Contents:

Part One. Historicizing Nonhumans. 1. Change in black and white : killer whale bodies and the new Pacific Northwest / Jason Colby ; 2. Beasts of burden : feral burros and the American West / Abraham H. Gibson ; 3. Zombie zoology : history and reanimating extinct animals / Sandra Swart
Part Two. Archives and the Animal Trace. 4. Animal archive stories : species anxieties in the Mexican National Archive / Zeb Tortorici ; 5. Finding animals in history : veterinary artifacts and the use of material history / Lisa Cox ; 6. Nonhuman animal testimonies : a natural history in the first person? / Concepción Cortés Zulueta
Part Three. The Animal Factor of Historical Causation. 7. Horses and actor-networks : manufacturing travel in later medieval England / David Gary Shaw ; 8. Species agency : a comparative study of horse-human relationships in Chicago and rural Illinois / Andria Pooley-Ebert ; 9. Too sullen for survival : historicizing gorilla extinction, 1900-1930 / Noah Cincinnati ; 10. Migrant muskoxen and the naturalization of national identity in Scandinavia / Dolly J²rgensen
Part Four. Animals Coping with/Adapting to Us. 11. Exploring early human-animal encounters in the Galâapagos Islands using a historical zoology approach / Nicola Foote and Charles W. Gunnels IV ; 12. Of leopards and lesser animals : trials and tribulations of the "human-leopard murders" in colonial Africa / Stephanie Zehnle ; 13. Mountain meeting ground : history at an intersection of species / Drew A. Swanson
Part Five. Documenting Interspecific Partnerships. 14. Viewing the anthrozootic city : humans, domesticated animals, and the making of early nineteenth-century New York / Scott A. Miltenberger ; 15. "He took care of me" : the human-animal bond in Canada's Great War / Andrew McEwen ; 16. Tony the Wonder Horse : a star study / Courtney E. White.

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