Historical Animal Geographies

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: a meeting place -- PART I The home - shared spaces of cohabitation -- 2 When did pets become animals? -- 3 The entwined socioecological histories of the Sawtelle, California war veterans and the animal "menagerie" at the Pacific Branch Soldier's Home (1888-1918) -- 4 Shaking the ground: histories of earthworms from Darwin to niche construction -- PART II The city - historical animals in and out of sight -- 5 Zoöpolis -- 6 Kansas City: the morphology of an American zoöpolis through film -- 7 The strange case of the missing slaughterhouse geographies -- 8 The pigs are back again: urban pig keeping in wartime Britain, 1939-45 -- PART III The nation - historical animal bodies and human identities -- 9 Rebel elephants: resistance through human-elephant partnerships -- 10 Western horizons, animal becomings: race, species, and the troubled boundaries of the human in the era of American expansionism -- 11 For the love of life: coal mining and pit bull fighting in early 19th-century Britain -- PART IV The global - imperial networks and the movements of animals -- 12 Migration, assimilation, and invasion in the nineteenth century -- 13 Runaways and strays: rethinking (non)human agency in Caribbean slave societies -- Epilogue -- 14 Finding our way in the Anthropocene -- Index