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Paperback. Editor(s): Nance, Susan. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFZ; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens to discover how animals have altered the course of our collective past.
The seventeen scholars gathered here present case studies from the Pacific Ocean, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, involving ... Read more
The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens to discover how animals have altered the course of our collective past.
The seventeen scholars gathered here present case studies from the Pacific Ocean, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, involving ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815634065
SKU
V9780815634065
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About
Susan Nance is an associate professor in the Department of History and an affiliated faculty member at the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus.
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