Animal city : the domestication of America /

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 chan...

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書誌詳細
第一著者: Robichaud, Andrew A., 1981- (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2255654
目次:
  • Introduction : Gentlemen hogs
  • Cow town : New York City and the urban dairy crisis, 1830-1860
  • "The war on butchers" : San Francisco and the remaking of animal space, 1850-1870
  • Blood in the water : the butchers' reservation and the reshaping of San Francisco
  • How to kill a horse : SPCAs, urban order, and state power, 1866-1910
  • That doggy in the window : the SPCA and the making of pets in America
  • Captivating spectacles : the public battle over animal entertainment
  • Domesticating the wild : Woodward's Gardens and the making of the modern zoo
  • Conclusion : Stampede.