{"product_id":"the-historical-animal-9780815634065","title":"The Historical Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as\u003cbr\u003ethe history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have\u003cbr\u003escholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of\u003cbr\u003ehistorical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with\u003cbr\u003ecomplex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to\u003cbr\u003eexamine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens to discover how\u003cbr\u003eanimals have altered the course of our collective past.\u003cbr\u003e The seventeen scholars gathered here present case studies from the Pacific\u003cbr\u003eOcean, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, involving species ranging from gorillas\u003cbr\u003eand horses to salamanders and orcas. Together they seek out new methodologies, \u003cbr\u003equestions, and stories that challenge accepted historical assumptions\u003cbr\u003eand structures. Drawing upon environmental, social, and political history, the\u003cbr\u003econtributors employ research from such wide-ranging fields as philosophy and\u003cbr\u003eveterinary medicine, embracing a radical interdisciplinarity that is crucial to\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding our nonhuman past.\u003cbr\u003e Grounded in the knowledge that there has never been a purely human time\u003cbr\u003ein world history, this collection asks and answers an incredibly urgent question\u003cbr\u003efor historians and others interested in the nonhuman past: in an age of mass\u003cbr\u003eextinctions, mass animal captivity, and climate change, when we know much\u003cbr\u003eof what animals have done in the past, which of our activities will we want to\u003cbr\u003echange in the future?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Nance is an associate professor in the Department of History and an affiliated faculty\u003cbr\u003emember at the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph, \u003cbr\u003eOntario, Canada. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEntertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business\u003cbr\u003eof the American Circus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872881152274,"sku":"9780815634065","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ea81cbac-3e58-451d-9a4e-9d80d82a4234.jpg?v=1737914197","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-historical-animal-9780815634065","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}