A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire

by Kathleen Kete (Editor)

Overview

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialized and modernized. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart.

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary symbolism, hunting, domestication, sports and entertainment, science, philosophy, and art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845204105
Publisher:	Berg Publishers
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series , #5
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Kathleen Kete is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Hartford and author of The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Animals and Human Empire
Kathleen Kete, Trinity College, Hartford


1. The Moment of Greyfriars Bobby: The Changing Cultural Position of Animals in Europe
Hilda Kean, Ruskin College, Oxford


2. Hunting Empires in Britain and the United States
Daniel Herman, Central Washington University


3. Domestication of Empire: Human-Animal Relations at the Intersection of Civilization and Acclimatization in the Nineteenth Century
Dorothee Brantz, Department of History, SUNY Buffalo


4. How the Caged Bird Sings: Entertainment and the Exhibition of Animals
Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


5. From Birds of Paradise to Drosophila: The Changing Roles of Scientific Specimens in Europe and America to 1920
Narisara Murray, Independent Scholar, Cambodia


6. Philosophy and Animals in the Age of Empire
Mark Rowlands, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire


7. Narrative Dominion or The Animals Write Back? Animal Genres in Literature and the Arts
Teresa Mangum, Department of English, University of Iowa


Notes

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

An innovative and ambitious project that synthesizes knowledge of animals as living creatures and their symbolic representations... an invaluable contribution to our understanding... A combination of surprise and entertainment with serious research gives these volumes a place in the best tradition of accessible science.
Bernd Hüppauf, New York University for H-Soz-u-Kult

High quality editing, clear writing, and abundant visual illustrations ... These volumes will be basic to future scholarship dealing with animals and society. Essential.
Choice

The Cultural History of Animals presents an innovative and compelling introduction to current scholarship about the historical relationships between people and other animals.
Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, M.I.T.

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