Perilous beasts : Mexican necropolitics, animal deaths, and blood sports, 1870-1920 /

In "Perilous Beasts" Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepted animal death as a part of daily human life between 1870 and 1920. Whether with casual indifference or with roaring cheers, the death of animals became a feature of the emerging liberal and capitalist society. &q...

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Main Author: Neufeld, Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2026].
Series:Dialogos series.
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Summary:In "Perilous Beasts" Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepted animal death as a part of daily human life between 1870 and 1920. Whether with casual indifference or with roaring cheers, the death of animals became a feature of the emerging liberal and capitalist society. "Perilous Beasts" explains the necropolitical ecology and power of a transformed Mexico.
Item Description:Some illustrations oriented horizontally.
Physical Description:x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780826369093
082636909X
9780826369109
0826369103