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Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada

Edited by Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sethna, and Joanna Dean

Published by: University of Calgary Press

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Imprint: University of Calgary Press

Sales Date: 2017-02-17

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Published: February 2017

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Imprint: University of Calgary Press

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Page Count: 358 Pages

Illustrations: 47 illustrations, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

358 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 1.00 in, 47 illustrations, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index

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ISBN: 9781552388648

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Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal.

Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canada?s animal welfare movement.

The authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals.

Darcy Ingram teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa.

Christabelle Sethna is an historian and associate professor who teaches in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa.

Joanna Dean is associate professor of History at Carleton University, where she teaches animal history and environmental history.

With Contributions By: Kristoffer Archibald, Jason Colby, George Colpitts, Joanna Dean, Carla Hustak, Darcy Ingram, Sean Kheraj, William Knight, Sherry Olson, Rachel Poliquin, and Christabelle Sethna

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Introduction: Canamalia Urbanis
Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sthna, and Joanna Dean

1. The Memory of an Elephant: Savagery, Civilization and Spectacle
Christabelle Sethna

2. The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840?1914
Sherry Olson

3. Wild Things; Taming Canada's Animal Welfare Movement
Darcy Ingram

4. Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth?Century Canada
William Knight

5. The Beavers of Stanley Park
Rachel Poliquin

6. Species at Risk: C. Tetani, the Horse and the Human
Joanna Dean

7. Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880?1940
Carla Hutak

8. Howl: The 1952-56 Rabies Crisis and the Creation of the Urban Wild at Banff
George Colpitts

9. Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba
Kristoffer Archibald

10. Cetaceans in the City: Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in Vancouver
Jason Colby

Epilogue: Why Animals Matter in Urban History, or Why Cities Matter in Animal History
Sean Kheraj

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A beautifully written book with a diversity of chapters that can be read as stand-alone papers . . . I readily recommend this book--it offers a mix of easy reading with quality academic research and writing.

?Janette Youngs, Anthrozoos

It is gratifying to see more involvement from historians in this broad and growing area.

?Margaret E. Derry, The Canadian Historical Review

BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Cover Design

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