Animal City : : The Domestication of America / / Andrew A. Robichaud.
American urbanites once lived alongside livestock and beasts of burden. But as cities grew, human–animal relationships changed. The city became a place for pets, not slaughterhouses or working animals. Andrew Robichaud traces the far-reaching consequences of this shift—for urban landscapes, animal-...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. Cow Town
- 2. “The War on Butchers”
- 3. Blood in the Water
- 4. How to Kill a Horse
- 5. That Doggy in the Window
- 6. Captivating Spectacles
- 7. Domesticating the Wild
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index