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