Animating Central Park A Multispecies History

Dawn Day Biehler|Paul S. Sutter

ISBN 10: 0295753196 / ISBN 13: 9780295753195

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2025

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• Titre: Animating Central Park A Multispecies History
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295753196
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295753195
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world's iconic urban green spaces

From deer and beavers to "free range" pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of animals. In 1858, the city adopted the Greensward Plan and began the long process of reshaping the 843 acres of land into a park where everything--from the trees to the trails to the inhabitants--would be meticulously planned to benefit New Yorkers and to promote the city as a global metropolis among the likes of London and Paris. But this vision of Central Park embodied white elite European values, and disagreements about which creatures belonged in the park's waters and green spaces have often perpetuated systems of oppression.

Illuminating the multispecies story of Central Park from the 1850s to the 1970s, Dawn Day Biehler examines the vibrant and intimately connected lives of humans and nonhuman animals in the park. She reveals stories of grazing sheep, teeming fish, nesting swans, migrating warblers, and escaped bison as well as human New Yorkers' attempts to reconfigure their relationships to the land and claim spaces for recreation and leisure. Ultimately, Biehler shows how Central Park has always been a place where animals and humans alike have vied for power and belonging.

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Dawn Biehler is associate professor in Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is author of Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats (University of Washington Press, 2013).

Paul Sutter is series editor for the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. He is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published five books, including Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (UWP, 2005) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (Georgia, 2015).