The gospel of kindness : animal welfare and the making of modern America / Janet M. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Janet M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare--United States--History.

Animal welfare.

Animal rights--United States--History.

Animal rights.

Social values--United States--History.

Social values.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Gospel of Kindness explores the historical significance of the American animal welfare movement at home and overseas from the Second Great Awakening to the Second World War. Focused on laboring animals at its inception, the movement evolved into an expansive ""gospel of kindness,"" transforming animal mercy into a signature American value.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: "A righteous man regards the life of his beast": The Roots of the Gospel of

Kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Reform

Chapter Two: "A World of Kindness is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Chapter Three: From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien Other

Chapter Four: An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and Moral

Expansionism Overseas

Chapter Five: "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia

Chapter Six: "So Thoroughly Un-American": Making Historical Sense of the Bullfight

Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-991132-0

0-19-060903-6

0-19-990888-5