About Author
Hilda Kean was Dean of Ruskin College, Oxford. Her many books include The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of the World War 11’s Unknown Tragedy (2017); Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 (1998); The Public History Reader (with Paul Martin, 2013).
Philip Howell is Reader in Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth- Century Britain and the Empire (2009) and At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain (2015).
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Writing in Animals in History Philip Howell and Hilda Kean
I Animals and the Practice of History
2. The Other Citizens: Nationalism and Animals Sandra Swart
3. New Political History and the Writing of Animal Lives Mieke Roscher
4. Public History and Heritage: A Fruitful Approach for Privileging Animals? Hilda Kean
5. Wildlife Conservation as Cultural Memory Jan-Erik Steinkruger
6. Animals in Science: Laboratory Life from the Experimental Animal to the Model Organism Robert G.W. Kirk
7. Animals in the History of Animal and Veterinary Medicine Abigail Woods
8. Animal Matters Liv Emma Thorsen
II Problems and Paradigms
9. Animals, Agency, and History Philip Howell
10. Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture Jennifer McDonnell
11. ‘And Has Not Art Promoted Our Work Also?’ Visual Culture in Animal-Human History J. Keri Cronin
12. When Adam and Eve were Monkeys: Anthropomorphism, Zoomorphism, and Other Ways of Looking at Animals Boria Sax
13. Exhibiting Animals Helen Cowie
14. Topologies of Tenderness and Violence: Human-Animal Relations in Georgian England Carl Griffin
15. The History of Emotional Attachment to Animals Ingrid H. Tague
16. Surviving Twentieth-Century Modernity: Birdsong and Emotions in Britain Michael Guida
III Themes and Provocations
17. Breeding Julie-Marie Strange, Mick Worboys, and Neil Pemberton
18. Animals in and at War Gervase Phillips
19. Hunting and Animal-Human History Philip Howell
20. Eating Animals Chris Otter
21. Animals and Violence: Medieval Humanism, ‘Medieval Brutality’, and the Carnivorous Vegetarianism of Margery Kempe Karl Steel
Conclusions
22. Practising Animal-Human History Philip Howell
Epilogue Harriet Ritvo