Title Bellwether histories : animals, humans, and US environments in crisis / edited by Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations Contents Introduction. The Mule in the Coal Mine -- One. Interspecies Anticapitalism in English and American Humanitarian Writings, ca. 1800-1850 -- Two. Chicago's 1872 Equine Influenza Epizootic and the Evolution of Urban Transit Technology -- Three. Cattle and Blizzards: Lessons from the Big Die-Up in 1880s Montana -- Four. Animal Photography and the "Elk Problem" in Modern Wyoming -- Five. Animals, Infrastructure, and Empire: Insects and Birds as Biological Control -- Agents in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i -- Six. Captive Breeding and the Commodification of "Surplus" Animals at the Central Park Zoo, 1886-1974 -- Seven. The Destructive Ecology of Human-Pig Relations in Iowa since 1950 -- Eight. "The Next Meal for the Lions": The US Occupation of the Baghdad Zoo, 2003-2004 Summary A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created and perpetuated untenable and unequal interspecies relationships. The collection's authors explore how people misunderstood or ignored animal crises precipitated by habitat destruction and population declines, sudden dependence on human aid, shifts from freedom to captivity, or subjection to overextended management systems.Chapters address a range of themes, including the links between antislavery and anti-animal-cruelty advocacy; how cattle, horse, and pig behavior shaped human life and technology; and the politics of caring for and trafficking wild animals. This volume interrogates the history of animal disposability and its ideological twin in US history, human exceptionalism--the anthropocentric myth that people could harm animals without harming themselves.Today's mass extinctions and ecological breakdowns ensure deadly zoonotic pandemics and global warming will harass us far into the future. Bellwether Histories looks back at how animals have been warning us of our collective fate and asks why they were so seldom heard Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebscohost, viewed on August 7, 2023) Subject Animals and civilization -- United States Human-animal relationships -- United States -- History -- 19th century Human-animal relationships -- United States -- History -- 20th century Human ecology -- United States -- History -- 19th century Human ecology -- United States -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / United States / General Animals and civilization Human-animal relationships Human ecology United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Nance, Susan, editor. Marks, Jennifer (Historian), editor. ISBN 9780295751436 0295751436

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