The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history.

Table of Contents

• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: writing in animals in history - Philip Howell and Hilda Kean
• Part I: Animals and the practice of history
• – The other citizens: nationalism and animals - Sandra Swart
• – New political history and the writing of animal lives - Mieke Roscher
• – Public history and heritage: a fruitful approach for privileging animals? - Hilda Kean
• – Wildlife conservation as cultural memory - Jan-Erik Steinkrüger
• – The experimental animal: in search of a moral ecology of science? - Robert G.W. Kirk
• – Animals in the history of human and veterinary medicine - Abigail Woods
• – Animal matter in museums: exemplifying materiality - Liv EmmaThorsen
• Part II: Problems and paradigms
• – Animals, agency, and history - Philip Howell
• – Representing animals in the literature of Victorian Britain - Jennifer McDonell
• – ‘And has not art promoted our work also?’ Visual culture in animal–human history - J. Keri Cronin
• – When Adam and Eve were monkeys: anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, and other ways of looking at animals - Boria Sax
• – Exhibiting animals: zoos, menageries and circuses - Helen Cowie
• – Topologies of tenderness and violence: human–animal relations in Georgian England - Carl Griffin
• – The history of emotional attachment to animals - Ingrid H. Tague
• – Surviving twentieth-century modernity: birdsong and emotions in Britain - Michael Guida
• Part III: Themes and provocations
• – Breeding and breed - Neil Pemberton, Julie-Marie Strange and Michael Worboys
• – Animals in and at war - Gervase Phillips
• – Hunting and animal–human history - Philip Howell
• – Eating animals - Chris Otter
• – Animals and violence: medieval humanism, ‘medieval brutality’, and the carnivorous vegetarianism of Margery Kempe - Karl Steel
• Conclusions
• – The triumph of animal history? - Philip Howell
• – Epilogue - Harriet Ritvo