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The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History (Routledge Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History (Routledge Companions)

by Hilda Kean (Editor), Philip Howell (Editor)

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Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships.

Divided into three parts, the Companion takes both a theoretical and practical approach to a field that is emerging as a prominent area of study. Animals and the Practice of History considers established practices of history, such as political history, public history and cultural memory, and how animal-human history can contribute to them. Problems and Paradigms identifies key historiographical issues to the field with contributors considering the challenges posed by topics such as agency, literature, art and emotional attachment. The final section, Themes and Provocations, looks at larger themes within the history of animal-human relationships in more depth, with contributions covering topics that include breeding, war, hunting and eating.

As it is increasingly recognised that nonhuman actors have contributed to the making of history, The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on animal-human history and surrounding debates.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 574
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 28 Aug 2018
ISBN 10: 1138193267
ISBN 13: 9781138193260

Media Reviews

`With incisive writing from some excellent contributors, this volume makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the complexity and diversity of animal-human histories.'

Steve Baker, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Central Lancashire, UK

`Until relatively recently, historians have been guilty of selectively ignoring the role that relationships with nonhuman animals have played in shaping, and in some cases transforming, human history. The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a series of timely and outstanding reviews of the complex issues and exciting opportunities that arise when the conjoined histories of humans and other animals are reconsidered.'

James Serpell, University of Pennsylvania, USA

`As the study of animal-human history continues to grow and diversify, I am sure that this `state of the art' collection of essays will become a vital source. It opens up new, thought-provoking approaches to a range of themes, especially the active roles that animals have played in human history, and is lavishly referenced.'

Professor Diana Donald, author of Picturing Animals in Britain, 1750-1850

'Setting out from an exemplary introduction to key issues in thinking about human-animal histories, the authors here are excellent companions with whom to journey into these mutual pasts. They indicate and explore ways in which human-animal histories can be researched, recovered, remade, and written in illuminating, instructive, and provocative ways.'

Garry Marvin, Professor of Human-Animal Studies, University of Roehampton, UK

Author Bio
Hilda Kean was Dean of Ruskin College, Oxford. Her many books include The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of the World War 11's Unknown Tragedy (2017); Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 (1998); The Public History Reader (with Paul Martin, 2013). Philip Howell is Reader in Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth- Century Britain and the Empire (2009) and At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain (2015).