Janet M. Davis is Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top, as well as the editor of Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Life of Tiny Kline. Her opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times and Newsday.

Enrich[es] our understandings of human-animal relations in American history, as well as force[s] us to revisit and reconsider larger historiographical assumptions about agency and causation....[Davis] deftly weaves the history of animal welfare in with that of other social movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Davis's final three chapters...are her most pathbreaking, for they move beyond the U.S. frame and put American animal advocacy in conversation with global dialogues about our young nation's empire taking place first in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico under U.S. military occupation, and later in India and Spain via Protestant missionaries. Here, Davis is particularly skillful at synthesizing existing animal studies and global histories with her own close readings of animal advocacy texts.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter One: "A righteous man regards the life of his beast": The Roots of the Gospel of Kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum ReformChapter Two: "A World of Kindness is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the Woman's Christian Temperance UnionChapter Three: From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien OtherChapter Four: An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and MoralExpansionism OverseasChapter Five: "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia Chapter Six: "So Thoroughly Un-American": Making Historical Sense of the BullfightConclusionNotesIndex

Janet M. Davis is Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top, as well as the editor of Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Life of Tiny Kline. Her opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times and Newsday.

Enrich[es] our understandings of human-animal relations in American history, as well as force[s] us to revisit and reconsider larger historiographical assumptions about agency and causation....[Davis] deftly weaves the history of animal welfare in with that of other social movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Davis's final three chapters...are her most pathbreaking, for they move beyond the U.S. frame and put American animal advocacy in conversation with global dialogues about our young nation's empire taking place first in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico under U.S. military occupation, and later in India and Spain via Protestant missionaries. Here, Davis is particularly skillful at synthesizing existing animal studies and global histories with her own close readings of animal advocacy texts.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter One: "A righteous man regards the life of his beast": The Roots of the Gospel of Kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum ReformChapter Two: "A World of Kindness is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the Woman's Christian Temperance UnionChapter Three: From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien OtherChapter Four: An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and MoralExpansionism OverseasChapter Five: "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia Chapter Six: "So Thoroughly Un-American": Making Historical Sense of the BullfightConclusionNotesIndex

Janet M. Davis is Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top, as well as the editor of Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Life of Tiny Kline. Her opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times and Newsday.

Enrich[es] our understandings of human-animal relations in American history, as well as force[s] us to revisit and reconsider larger historiographical assumptions about agency and causation....[Davis] deftly weaves the history of animal welfare in with that of other social movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Davis's final three chapters...are her most pathbreaking, for they move beyond the U.S. frame and put American animal advocacy in conversation with global dialogues about our young nation's empire taking place first in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico under U.S. military occupation, and later in India and Spain via Protestant missionaries. Here, Davis is particularly skillful at synthesizing existing animal studies and global histories with her own close readings of animal advocacy texts.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter One: "A righteous man regards the life of his beast": The Roots of the Gospel of Kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum ReformChapter Two: "A World of Kindness is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the Woman's Christian Temperance UnionChapter Three: From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien OtherChapter Four: An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and MoralExpansionism OverseasChapter Five: "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia Chapter Six: "So Thoroughly Un-American": Making Historical Sense of the BullfightConclusionNotesIndex