Bellwether Histories
Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Date of Publication 20 June 2023
- ISBN 9780295751429
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 367 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 b&w illus. Illustrations, black & white 522
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Long description:
Explores ecological crises and extinctions that have shaped US history
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.
Chapters address a range of themes, including the links between antislavery and anti-animal-cruelty advocacy; how cattle, horse, and pig behavior shaped human life and technology; and the politics of caring for and trafficking wild animals. This volume interrogates the history of animal disposability and its ideological twin in US history, human exceptionalism?the anthropocentric myth that people could harm animals without harming themselves.
Today's mass extinctions and ecological breakdowns ensure deadly zoonotic pandemics and global warming will harass us far into the future. Bellwether Histories looks back at how animals have been warning us of our collective fate and asks why they were so seldom heard.
"Accessible and engaging, this volume would be of interest to environmental and United States history scholars and could be used in an American environmental history course. Each essay can stand on its own and various chapters could contribute to gender studies, western history, war and society, or other specialized scholarship and syllabi."
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: The Mule in the Coal Mine
1. Interspecies Anticapitalism in English and American Humanitarian Writings, ca. 1800?1850
Joshua Abram Kercsmar
2. Chicago?s 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
