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Bellwether Histories – Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis: Bellwether Histories

Autor Susan Nance, Jennifer Marks
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 iul 2023
"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"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295751412
ISBN-10: 029575141X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria Bellwether Histories


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Cuprins

Preface
Introduction: The Mule in the Coal Mine
1. Interspecies Anticapitalism in English and American Humanitarian Writings, ca. 1800¿1850
Joshua Abram Kercsmar
2. Chicagös 1872 Equine Influenza Epizootic and the Evolution of Urban Transit Technology
Jennifer G. Marks
3. Cattle and Blizzards: Lessons from the Big Die-Up in 1880s Montana
Susan Nance
4. Animal Photography and the ¿Elk Problem¿ in Modern Wyoming
Vanessa Bateman
5. Animals, Infrastructure, and Empire: Insects and Birds as Biological Control Agents in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai`i
Jessica Wang
6. Captive Breeding and the Commodification of ¿Surplus¿ Animals at the Central Park Zoo, 1886¿1974
Andrea Ringer
7. The Destructive Ecology of Human-Pig Relations in Iowa since 1950
Mary Trachsel
8. ¿The Next Meal for the Lions¿: The US Occupation of the Baghdad Zoo, 2003¿2004
John M. Kinder
List of Contributors
Index