Rene Descartes views on animals are readily simplified, even traduced, but the standard
interpretation of the Cartesian method has not been much more than modified. Human …

Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class
Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape herself in a sealskin jacket …

" What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience,
but of human imperfection and stubbornness?” asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against …

Animal spectacles are vital to a holistic appreciation of Spanish culture. In Transoceanic
Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain, Beusterien christens five previously unnamed …

28 A. WOODS examination of the rhino's pathology and anatomy was attended by
anatomists, medical men and the queen's veterinary surgeon for Ireland, with assistance …

In 1776, the first living giant anteater to reach Europe arrived in Madrid from Buenos Aires. It
survived 6 months in the Real Sitio del Buen Retiro before being transferred to the newly …

This chapter explores the question of animal agency as it relates to zoos, menageries and
circuses. It focuses on three case studies: the celebrity animal, the deviant animal and the …

[Nonhuman animals are speaking:] It is a fact that human beings consider us earthly and
themselves divine to cover up their own cruelty. Since humans know they can achieve …

This article explores a stylized version of “natural” birdsong as an element of the
soundscape of a historical city, late-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. From 1880 to 1900 …

The Element provides a global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the
individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory. Sections on China include …