Janet M. Davis is Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Women's and Gender Studies, 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.

The Gospel of Kindnessgoes much further to expose the heretofore unexamined animal dimensions of American citizenship and civilization.

• 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, 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.

The Gospel of Kindnessgoes much further to expose the heretofore unexamined animal dimensions of American citizenship and civilization.

• 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, 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.

The Gospel of Kindnessgoes much further to expose the heretofore unexamined animal dimensions of American citizenship and civilization.

• 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