Bellwether histories : animals, humans, and US environments in crisis / edited by Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nance, Susan, editor.

Marks, Jennifer (Historian), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals and civilization--United States.

Animals and civilization.

Human-animal relationships--United States--History--19th century.

Human-animal relationships.

Human-animal relationships--United States--History--20th century.

Human ecology--United States--History--19th century.

Human ecology.

Human ecology--United States--History--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Animals, humans, and United States environments in crisis

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. The Mule in the Coal Mine

One. Interspecies Anticapitalism in English and American Humanitarian Writings, ca. 1800-1850

Two. Chicago's 1872 Equine Influenza Epizootic and the Evolution of Urban Transit Technology

Three. Cattle and Blizzards: Lessons from the Big Die-Up in 1880s Montana

Four. Animal Photography and the "Elk Problem" in Modern Wyoming

Five. Animals, Infrastructure, and Empire: Insects and Birds as Biological Control

Agents in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i

Six. Captive Breeding and the Commodification of "Surplus" Animals at the Central Park Zoo, 1886-1974

Seven. The Destructive Ecology of Human-Pig Relations in Iowa since 1950

Eight. "The Next Meal for the Lions": The US Occupation of the Baghdad Zoo, 2003-2004

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295751412

029575141X

9780295751429

0295751428

OCLC:

1348285545