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American beasts : perspectives on animals, animality and U.S. culture, 1776-1920 / Dominik Ohrem (ed.).
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English
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Berlin : Neofelis Verlag, [2017]
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303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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QL85 .A44 2017
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Human-animal relationships
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United States
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Pets
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"In American history, animals are everywhere. They are a ubiquitous presence in myriad historical, literary, biographical, scientific and other documents and narratives of the American past--a past that, just like the present, was shaped by a multiplicity of relations between humans and other creatures, ranging from coexistence and conviviality to hostility, subjugation and extermination. While such quintessentially American species as the bison, the mustang or the grizzly continue to roam the discursive, imaginary and, now to a much lesser degree, the geographical spaces of the nation, the less iconic creatures of civilization--the various species of domesticated working and companion animals--have arguably played an even more critical role in the genesis of modern American culture and society throughout the 'long nineteenth century.'"--Page 4 of cover.
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Contents
Introduction. A declaration of interdependence. American history and the challenges of postanthropocentric historiography / Dominik Ohrem
I. Animal lives and the contours of American modernity. "To the admirers of the feathered creation" : the birth of the pet industry and the trade in songbirds in nineteenth-century America / Katherine C. Grier
Ciferae in the city / Roman Bartosch
Horses, cameras, and a multitude of gazes : visualizing animal athletes, 1890s-1930s / Olaf Stieglitz
Modes of production, modes of seeing : creaturely suffering in Upton Sinclair's The jungle / Michael Malay
II. Animality and its intersections : the politics of human-animal relations. Black dogs, bloodhounds, and best friends : African Americans and dogs in nineteenth-century abolitionist literature / Brigitte Fielder
Man's best and worst friends : the politics of pet preference at the turn of the twentieth century / Keridiana Chez
"Sheep is life" : the Navajo, cultural genocide, and the animal as cultural property and historical witness / Aimee Swenson
III. Exploration, expansion and manifest destiny : contexts and legacies. Ardent creatures : William Bartram and the limits of compassion / Neill Matheson
The ends of man : the zooanthropological imaginary and the animal geographies of westward expansion in antebellum America / Dominik Ohrem
The passenger pigeon and its role in perceptions of manifest destiny / Andrew Howe.
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Perspectives on animals, animality and U.S. culture, 1776-1920
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9783958080379 ((pbk.))
3958080375 ((pbk.))
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2017377596
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931645486
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9783958080379
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