{"product_id":"animal-metropolis-histories-of-human-animal-relations-in-urban-canada-9781552388648","title":"Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnimal Metropolis \u003c\/em\u003ebrings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canada's animal welfare movement.\u003cp\u003eThe authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is gratifying to see more involvement from historians in this broad and growing area. - Margaret E. Derry, The Canadian Historical Review\u003cbr\u003eThe eleven authors of this text contribute great insight into the depository of âCanamalia Urbanisââ| As Animal Metropolis presents curious stories of nonhuman animals in Canada, readers and scholars should be inspired beyond pondering and ask with humility what responsibilities come with this knowledge. - Stephanie Eccles, BC Studies\u003cbr\u003eThis playful and thought-provoking collection of essays makes a persuasive case for the study of urban animals in a country long celebrated for its iconic wildlife. This is an important contribution to the growing fields of animal studies and animal history, and one that will serve as a catalyst for a new generation of scholarship. -Jennifer Bonnell, Assistant Professor, Department of History, York University\u003cbr\u003eTracing often stunning connections between animals, environments, cultures, and histories, Animal Metropolis explores an extraordinarily diverse set of encounters between humans and other animals in Canadian history. Each chapter was a revelation, offering a timely and provocative look at Canada and its denizens. -Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u003cbr\u003eAnimal Metropolis provides a fascinating taste of what a history that decentres the human might look like. Scholars and students of history, philosophy, sociology, human or critical geography, and animal studies, to name a few, will find chapters that provoke, challenge, and delight. -Nik Taylor, Associate Professor of Sociology, Flinders University\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully written book with a diversity of chapters that can be read as stand-alone papers . . . I readily recommend this book--it offers a mix of easy reading with quality academic research and writing.  Janette Youngs, Anthrozoos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTables \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: \u003cem\u003eCanamalia Urbanis\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eDarcy Ingram, Christabelle Sthna, and Joanna Dean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Memory of an Elephant: Savagery, Civilization and Spectacle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristabelle Sethna \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840-1914\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSherry Olson \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Wild Things; Taming Canada's Animal Welfare Movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eDarcy Ingram \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Knight \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. The Beavers of Stanley Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eRachel Poliquin \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Species at Risk: \u003cem\u003eC. Tetani\u003c\/em\u003e, the Horse and the Human\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoanna Dean \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880-1940\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarla Hutak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Howl: The 1952-56 Rabies Crisis and the Creation of the Urban Wild at Banff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorge Colpitts \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eKristoffer Archibald \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Cetaceans in the City: Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in Vancouver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eJason Colby\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: Why Animals Matter in Urban History, or Why Cities Matter in Animal History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSean Kheraj \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Calgary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734067962199,"sku":"9781552388648","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/animal-metropolis-histories-of-human-animal-relations-in-urban-canada-9781552388648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}