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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 species ranging from gorillas and horses to salamanders and orcas. Together they seek out new methodologies, questions, and stories that challenge accepted historical assumptions and structures. Drawing upon environmental, social, and political history, the contributors employ research from such wide-ranging fields as philosophy and veterinary medicine, embracing a radical interdisciplinarity that is crucial to understanding our nonhuman past. Grounded in the knowledge that there has never been a purely human time in world history, this collection asks and answers an incredibly urgent question for historians and others interested in the nonhuman past: in an age of mass extinctions, mass animal captivity, and climate change, when we know much of what animals have done in the past, which of our activities will we want to change in the future?--Publisher website.
Change in black and white: killer whale bodies and the new Pacific Northwest -- Beasts of burden: feral burros and the American West -- Zombie zoology: history and reanimating extinct animals -- Animal archive stories: species anxieties in the Mexican National Archive -- Finding animals in history: veterinary artifacts and the use of material history -- Nonhuman animal testimonies: a natural history in the first person? --Horses and actor-networks: manufacturing travel in later medieval England -- Species agency: a comparative study of horse-human relationships in Chicago and rural Illinois -- Too sullen for survival: historicizing gorilla extinction, 1900-1930 -- Migrant muskoxen and the naturalization of national identity in Scandinavia -- Exploring early human-animal encounters in the Galâapagos Islands using a historical zoology approach -- Of leopards and lesser animals: trials and tribulations of the "human-leopard murders" in colonial Africa -- Mountain meeting ground: history at an intersection of species -- Viewing the anthrozootic city: humans, domesticated animals, and the making of early nineteenth-century New York -- "He took care of me": the human-animal bond in Canada's Great War -- Tony the Wonder Horse: a star study
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-392) and index.