The Historical Animal - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0815634064 ISBN 13 : 9780815634065

Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 2015

Synopsis

<p>The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as<br>the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have<br>scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of<br>historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with<br>complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to<br>examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens to discover how<br>animals have altered the course of our collective past.<br> The seventeen scholars gathered here present case studies from the Pacific<br>Ocean, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, involving species ranging from gorillas<br>and horses to salamanders and orcas. Together they seek out new methodologies,<br>questions, and stories that challenge accepted historical assumptions<br>and structures. Drawing upon environmental, social, and political history, the<br>contributors employ research from such wide-ranging fields as philosophy and<br>veterinary medicine, embracing a radical interdisciplinarity that is crucial to<br>understanding our nonhuman past.<br> Grounded in the knowledge that there has never been a purely human time<br>in world history, this collection asks and answers an incredibly urgent question<br>for historians and others interested in the nonhuman past: in an age of mass<br>extinctions, mass animal captivity, and climate change, when we know much<br>of what animals have done in the past, which of our activities will we want to<br>change in the future?</p>

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

<p>Susan Nance is an associate professor in the Department of History and an affiliated faculty<br>member at the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph,<br>Ontario, Canada. She is the author of <i>Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business</i><br><i>of the American Circus.</i></p>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Syracuse University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815634064
• ISBN 13: 9780815634065
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 405
• Éditeur: Nance Susan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible