Title & Author:

Animal metropolis : histories of human-animal relations in urban Canada / edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna.

Publication:

Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

xiv, 344 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 23 cm

Series:

Canadian history and environment series, 1925-3702 ; no. 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The memory of an elephant : savagery, civilization, and spectacle / Christabelle Sethna -- The urban horse and the shaping of Montreal, 1840 1914 / Sherry Olson -- Wild things : taming Canada's animal welfare movement / Darcy Ingram -- Fish out of water : fish exhibition in late nineteenth-century Canada / William Knight -- The beavers of Stanley Park / Rachel Poliquin -- Species at risk : c. tetani, the horse, and the human / Joanna Dean -- Got milk? Dirty cows, unfit mothers, and infant mortality, 1880 1940 / Carla Hustak -- Howl : the 1952 56 rabies crisis and the creation of the urban wild at Banff / George Colpitts -- Arctic capital : managing polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba / Kristoffer Archibald -- Cetaceans in the city : orca captivity, animal rights, and environmental values in Vancouver / Jason Colby.
Issued also in electronic formats.

Summary:

"Animal Metropolis includes a diverse array of work on the historical study of human-animal relations in Canada. In doing so, it aims to create a starting point for an ongoing conversation about the place of animals in historical analysis and, in turn, about the way issues regarding animals fit into Canada's political, social, cultural, economic, environmental and ethical landscapes. One of the most striking aspects of this collection is its capacity to present a wide variety of topics, sources and methodologies within a tightly focused theme. The sources employed in these articles cover a broad spectrum, from state and legal documents to the popular press, from corporate records and NGO reports to personal diaries, and from materials on industrial agriculture to those of the tourism industry. Even more compelling than the sources are the methodological issues that the collection raises. One of our key objectives is to highlight the sheer diversity of approaches historians are employing in their efforts to analyze non-human subjects that do not produce documentary records of their own. By focusing explicitly on urban contexts the book aims deliberately to cleave from a more obvious focus on wild animals and the wilderness environment that are so iconic to Canada. Readers will be impressed by the range of creatures, both domestic and wild: from horses and dogs to beavers and wolves to whales, fish, polar bears and captive elephants. Covering small and larger regions, and in some instances the nation as a whole, the collection offers impressive breadth in scope. Varying widely in the lenses through which human-animal relations are viewed, it brings to the forefront the contemporary as well as the historical dimensions of the issues it raises."-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Click here for electronic version.

ISBN:

9781552388648 (softcover)
1552388646
9781552388655
9781552388662
9781552388670
9781552388686
9781552388679

Subject:

Human-animal relationships Canada.
Human-animal relationships Canada History.
Urban animals Canada.
Urban animals Canada History.
Animals and civilization Canada.
Animals and civilization Canada History.
Urban ecology (Sociology) Canada.
Urban ecology (Sociology) Canada History.
Urban wildlife management Canada.
Urban wildlife management Canada History.
Ecology.
Animals
Relations homme-animal Canada.
Relations homme-animal Canada Histoire.
Faune urbaine Canada.
Faune urbaine Canada Histoire.
Animaux et civilisation Canada.
Animaux et civilisation Canada Histoire.
Écologie urbaine Canada.
Écologie urbaine Canada Histoire.
Faune urbaine Aménagement Canada.
Faune urbaine Aménagement Canada Histoire.
Écologie.
ecology.
Animals and civilization
Human-animal relationships
Urban animals
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban wildlife management
Canada

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Dean, Joanna, author, editor.
Sethna, Christabelle, 1961- author, editor.
Ingram, Darcy, author, editor.
Olson, Sherry H. Urban horse and the shaping of Montreal, 1840 1914.
Canadian history and environment series ; 8.

Histories of human-animal relations in urban Canada

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294473
Call No.: BIB 240056
Status: Available