The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History / edited by Hilda Kean and Philip Howell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kean, Hilda, editor.

Howell, P. (Philip), editor.

Series:

Routledge Companions.

Routledge Companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships--History.

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--History.

Animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 560 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships. Divided into three parts, the Companion takes both a theoretical and practical approach to a field that is emerging as a prominent area of study. Animals and the Practice of History considers established practices of history, such as political history, public history and cultural memory, and how animal-human history can contribute to them. Problems and Paradigms identifies key historiographical issues to the field with contributors considering the challenges posed by topics such as agency, literature, art and emotional attachment. The final section, Themes and Provocations, looks at larger themes within the history of animal-human relationships in more depth, with contributions covering topics that include breeding, war, hunting and eating.As it is increasingly recognised that nonhuman actors have contributed to the making of history, The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on animal-human history and surrounding debates.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Writing in Animals in History Philip Howell and Hilda Kean

I Animals and the Practice of History

2. The Other Citizens: Nationalism and Animals Sandra Swart 3. New Political History and the Writing of Animal Lives Mieke Roscher 4. Public History and Heritage: A Fruitful Approach for Privileging Animals? Hilda Kean 5. Wildlife Conservation as Cultural Memory Jan-Erik Steinkruger 6. Animals in Science: Laboratory Life from the Experimental Animal to the Model Organism Robert G.W. Kirk 7. Animals in the History of Animal and Veterinary Medicine Abigail Woods 8. Animal Matters Liv Emma Thorsen

II Problems and Paradigms

9. Animals, Agency, and History Philip Howell 10. Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture Jennifer McDonnell 11. And Has Not Art Promoted Our Work Also? Visual Culture in Animal-Human HistoryJ. Keri Cronin 12. When Adam and Eve were Monkeys: Anthropomorphism, Zoomorphism, and Other Ways of Looking at Animals Boria Sax 13. Exhibiting Animals Helen Cowie 14. Topologies of Tenderness and Violence: Human-Animal Relations in Georgian England Carl Griffin 15. The History of Emotional Attachment to Animals Ingrid H. Tague 16. Surviving Twentieth-Century Modernity: Birdsong and Emotions in Britain Michael Guida

III Themes and Provocations

17. Breeding Julie-Marie Strange, Mick Worboys, and Neil Pemberton 18. Animals in and at War Gervase Phillips 19. Hunting and Animal-Human History Philip Howell 20. Eating Animals Chris Otter 21. Animals and Violence: Medieval Humanism, Medieval Brutality, and the Carnivorous Vegetarianism of Margery Kempe Karl Steel

Conclusions

22. Practising Animal-Human History Philip Howell

Epilogue

Harriet Ritvo

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9781787855861

1787855864

9780429889257

0429889259

9780429889240

0429889240

9780429468933

0429468938

OCLC:

1049975077