American beasts : perspectives on animals, animality and U.S. culture, 1776-1920 / Dominik Ohrem (ed.).

"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 creatu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ohrem, Dominik (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Neofelis Verlag GmbH, [2017]
Subjects:
Human-animal relationships > United States.
Human-animal relationships > History.
Pets > United States.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships.
Pets.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Format: Book
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.