Bellwether Histories

Animals, Humans, and Us Environments in Crisis
Herausgeber: Nance, Susan; Marks, Jennifer

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Produktbeschreibung

"A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created and perpetuated untenable and unequal interspecies relationships. The collection's authors explore how people misunderstood or ignored animal crises precipitated by habitat destruction and population declines, sudden dependence on human aid, shifts from freedom to captivity, or subjection to overextended management systems"--

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780295751429
• ISBN-10: 0295751428
• Artikelnr.: 66278440

Autorenporträt

Edited by Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Mule in the Coal Mine
1. Interspecies Anticapitalism in English and American Humanitarian
Writings, ca. 1800-1850
Joshua Abram Kercsmar
2. Chicago's 1872 Equine Influenza Epizootic and the Evolution of Urban
Transit Technology
Jennifer G. Marks
3. Cattle and Blizzards: Lessons from the Big Die-Up in 1880s Montana
Susan Nance
4. Animal Photography and the "Elk Problem" in Modern Wyoming
Vanessa Bateman
5. Animals, Infrastructure, and Empire: Insects and Birds as Biological
Control Agents in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i
Jessica Wang
6. Captive Breeding and the Commodification of "Surplus" Animals at the
Central Park Zoo, 1886-1974
Andrea Ringer
7. The Destructive Ecology of Human-Pig Relations in Iowa since 1950
Mary Trachsel
8. "The Next Meal for the Lions": The US Occupation of the Baghdad Zoo,
2003-2004
John M. Kinder
List of Contributors
Index