2021
ISBN: 978-3110534290
The Handbook of Historical Animal Studies provides the first comprehensive and systematic evaluation and introduction to the history of the interrelations of humans and animals and their historical study. Animals are inseparably intertwined with history. From the earliest traces of human societies through the present, nonhuman animals have left their mark on human cultures and shaped our histories. But they also have histories of their own. The book assesses these histories and their writing along the lines of historiographic fields (such as social or political history), historical approaches (such as feminist or postcolonial history) and concrete topics in the history of human-animal interaction (such as the history of pet-keeping, hunting or exhibiting animals in zoos, museums or circuses). Furthermore, it includes regional perspectives (such as that of American or African Studies) and provides proposals for new, animal-conscious historical timelines (such as pre- and post-domestication). Simultaneously and centrally, its chapters illuminate the impact of human cultural practices and institutions on animals and their lives.
