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Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Canada (Canadian History and Environment)
Joanna Dean (Ed.)
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Description for Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Canada (Canadian History and Environment)
Paperback. Editor(s): Dean, Joanna; Ingram, Darcy; Sethna, Christabelle. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFFZ; KCU; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781552388648
SKU
V9781552388648
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Ref
99-15
About Joanna Dean (Ed.)
Joanna Dean is associate professor of History at Carleton University, where she teaches animal history and environmental history. Darcy Ingram teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa, where he works on social movements, environmentalism, and environmental governance. Christabelle Sethna is an historian and associate professor who teaches in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, ... Read more
Reviews for Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Canada (Canadian History and Environment)
It is gratifying to see more involvement from historians in this broad and growing area. - Margaret E. Derry, The Canadian Historical Review The eleven authors of this text contribute great insight into the depository of aCanamalia Urbanisaa| As Animal Metropolis presents curious stories of nonhuman animals in Canada, readers and scholars should be inspired beyond pondering and ask with ... Read more