Animal Metropolis - Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada (Paperback)

Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canada's animal welfare movement. The authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals.

General

Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	February 2017
Contributors:	Sherry Olson • Rachel Poliquin
Editors:	Joanna Dean • Darcy Ingram • Christabelle Sethna
Contributors:	Kristoffer Archibald • Jason M. Colby • George Colpitts • Carla Hustak • Sean Kheraj
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	358
ISBN-13:	978-1-55238-864-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-55238-864-6
Barcode:	9781552388648

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