Bellwether Histories

Susan Nance is professor of history at the University of Guelph and affiliated faculty with the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare. She is author of three books, including Rodeo: An Animal History. Jennifer Marks is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Iowa and works as a technical writer in Portland, Oregon. Contributors: Vanessa Bateman, Joshua Abram Kercsmar, John M. Kinder, Jennifer Marks, Susan Nance, Andrea Ringer, Mary Trachsel, and Jessica Wang

"[P]rovides an important reminder and even a blueprint for how all historians might contend with the experiences of animals and the consequences of human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene."

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Mule in the Coal Mine1. Interspecies Anticapitalism in English and American Humanitarian Writings, ca. 1800–1850Joshua Abram Kercsmar 2. Chicago’s 1872 Equine Influenza Epizootic and the Evolution of Urban Transit TechnologyJennifer G. Marks 3. Cattle and Blizzards: Lessons from the Big Die-Up in 1880s MontanaSusan Nance 4. Animal Photography and the “Elk Problem” in Modern WyomingVanessa Bateman 5. Animals, Infrastructure, and Empire: Insects and Birds as Biological Control Agents in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘iJessica Wang6. Captive Breeding and the Commodification of “Surplus” Animals at the Central Park Zoo, 1886–1974Andrea Ringer 7. The Destructive Ecology of Human-Pig Relations in Iowa since 1950Mary Trachsel 8. “The Next Meal for the Lions”: The US Occupation of the Baghdad Zoo, 2003–2004John M. Kinder List of ContributorsIndex