
Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History
Volume II: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 2)
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Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History
Volume II: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 2)
About this book
Volume II continues the discussion of animals/animality in U.S. social and scientific thought to address the ways in which the nexus of ideas surrounding human-animal distinctions became intertwined with interhuman hierarchies and power relations, including through the synergistic dynamics between race and species as co-implicating "taxonomies of power" (Claire Jean Kim) that informed both chattel slavery and settler violence against Indigenous peoples. A second section traces the evolution of animal advocacy from early individual voices to the formation of an organised movement following the Civil War, documenting a shift – however limited by structural constraints – from largely anthropocentric concerns with the social consequences of human cruelty towards other creatures to a broader moral consideration for nonhuman animals in their own right.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- General Introduction
- Volume II Introduction
- Part I The Contested Topography of the Human
- Part II Humane Ethics and Animal Advocacy
- Index