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- 9780813946429
- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of
- Subject Area
- Science
- Publication Name
- Beastly Natures : Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- History
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 16.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in problematic ways, to our concept of the wild. The book begins with a group of essays that approach the historical relevance of human-animal relations seen from the perspectives of various disciplines and suggest ways in which animals might be brought into formal studies of history. Differences in species and location can greatly affect the shape of human-animal interaction, and so the essays that follow address a wide spectrum of topics, including the demanding fate of the working horse, the complex image of the American alligator (at turns a dangerous predator and a tourist attraction), the zoo gardens of Victorian England, the iconography of the rhinoceros and the preference it reveals in society for myth over science, relations between humans and wolves in Europe, and what we can learn from society?s enthusiasm for "political" animals, such as the pets of the American presidents and the Soviet Union?s "space dogs." Taken together, these essays suggest new ways of looking not only at animals but at human history. Contributors Mark V. Barrow Jr., Virginia Tech * Peter Edwards, Roehampton University * Kelly Enright, Rutgers University * Oliver Hochadel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona * Uwe Lübken, Rachel Carson Center, Munich * Garry Marvin, Roehampton University * Clay McShane, Northeastern University * Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech * Susan Pearson, Northwestern University * Helena Pycior, University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee * Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee * Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University * Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University
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University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813946425
ISBN-13
9780813946429
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27050072111
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Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Beastly Natures : Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
Publication Year
2021
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Dewey Edition
22
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This new collection is a thoughtful menagerie. The essays collected here offer a fresh way of looking at animals in their context, and give us a whole new way of doing natural history. The boundaries between humans and animals are provocatively redrawn.
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College Graduate Student
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Scholarly & Professional
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
590
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Does "The Animal" Exist?: Toward a Theory of Social Life with Animals 2. Touching Animals: The Search for a Deeper Understanding of Animals 3. Wolves in Sheep's (and Others') Clothing 4. Darwin in the Monkey Cage: The Zoological Garden as a Medium of Evolutionary Theory 5. Why the Rhinoceros Doesn?t Talk: The Cultural Life of a Wild Animal in America 6. The Alligator?s Allure: Changing Perceptions of a Charismatic Carnivore 7. Nature Bridled: The Treatment and Training of Horses in Early Modern England 8. The Public and Private Lives of "First Dogs": Warren G. Harding?s Laddie Boy and Franklin D. Roosevelt?s Fala 9. The Legacy of Laika: Celebrity, Sacrifice, and the Soviet Space Dogs 10. The Horse in the Nineteenth-Century American City 11. "Poor Dumb Brutes" or "Friends in Need"?: Animals and River Floods in Modern Germany and the United States 12. Counting Sheep in the English Lake District: Rare Breeds, Local Knowledge, and Environmental History Notes on Contributors Index
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2010
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