Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical,
living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial
role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not
only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to
capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays
collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought
into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as
domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in
problematic ways, to our concept of the wild. The book begins with
a group of essays that approach the historical relevance of
human-animal relations seen from the perspectives of various
disciplines and suggest ways in which animals might be brought into
formal studies of history. Differences in species and location can
greatly affect the shape of human-animal interaction, and so the
essays that follow address a wide spectrum of topics, including the
demanding fate of the working horse, the complex image of the
American alligator (at turns a dangerous predator and a tourist
attraction), the zoo gardens of Victorian England, the iconography
of the rhinoceros and the preference it reveals in society for myth
over science, relations between humans and wolves in Europe, and
what we can learn from society's enthusiasm for "political"
animals, such as the pets of the American presidents and the Soviet
Union's "space dogs." Taken together, these essays suggest new ways
of looking not only at animals but at human history. Contributors
Mark V. Barrow Jr., Virginia Tech * Peter Edwards, Roehampton
University * Kelly Enright, Rutgers University * Oliver Hochadel,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona * Uwe Lubken, Rachel Carson
Center, Munich * Garry Marvin, Roehampton University * Clay
McShane, Northeastern University * Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech *
Susan Pearson, Northwestern University * Helena Pycior, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee * Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology * Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *
Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University * Mary Weismantel,
Northwestern University
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