Animal Metropolis : Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada / Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sethna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sethna, Christabelle, Editor.

Contributor:

Dean, Joanna, editor.

Ingram, Darcy, editor.

Sethna, Christabelle, editor.

Series:

Canadian history and environment series ; 8.

Canadian history and environment series ; 8

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Calgary University of Calgary Press 2017

[s.l.] : University of Calgary Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canada's animal welfare movement. The authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals. With Contributions By: Kristoffer Archibald, Jason Colby, George Colpitts, Joanna Dean, Carla Hustak, Darcy Ingram, Sean Kheraj, William Knight, Sherry Olson, Rachel Poliquin, and Christabelle Sethna

Contents:

The memory of an elephant : savagery, civilization, and spectacle / Christabelle Sethna

The urban horse and the shaping of Montreal, 1840 1914 / Sherry Olson

Wild things : taming Canada's animal welfare movement / Darcy Ingram

Fish out of water : fish exhibition in late nineteenth-century Canada / William Knight

The beavers of Stanley Park / Rachel Poliquin

Species at risk : c. tetani, the horse, and the human / Joanna Dean

Got milk? Dirty cows, unfit mothers, and infant mortality, 1880 1940 / Carla Hustak

Howl : the 1952 56 rabies crisis and the creation of the urban wild at Banff / George Colpitts

Arctic capital : managing polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba / Kristoffer Archibald

Cetaceans in the city : orca captivity, animal rights, and environmental values in Vancouver / Jason Colby.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

982244710

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6gqv8c

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access