TY - GEN T1 - Animal city : the domestication of America A1 - Robichaud, Andrew A., 1981- LA - English PP - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1125184798 AB - Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people's relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. As Animal City illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals' moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America.-- OP - 338 CN - QL85 .R63 2019eb SN - 9780674243187 SN - 0674243188 SN - 9780674243194 SN - 0674243196 SN - 9780674919365 SN - 067491936X KW - Human-animal relationships : United States : History : 19th century. KW - Urban animals : United States : History : 19th century. KW - Animal culture : United States : History : 19th century. KW - Urban policy : United States : History : 19th century. KW - Relations humain-animal : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Faune urbaine : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Politique urbaine : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - HISTORY : United States : 19th Century. KW - Urban policy KW - Urban animals KW - Human-animal relationships KW - Animal culture KW - United States KW - 1800-1899 KW - Electronic books. KW - History ER -