Animal Metropolis : Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
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 bea...
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| Superior document: | Canadian history and environment series ; 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian history and environment series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (358 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- The memory of an elephant : savagery, civilization, and spectacle / Christabelle Sethna
- The urban horse and the shaping of Montreal, 1840 1914 / Sherry Olson
- Wild things : taming Canada's animal welfare movement / Darcy Ingram
- Fish out of water : fish exhibition in late nineteenth-century Canada / William Knight
- The beavers of Stanley Park / Rachel Poliquin
- Species at risk : c. tetani, the horse, and the human / Joanna Dean
- Got milk? Dirty cows, unfit mothers, and infant mortality, 1880 1940 / Carla Hustak
- Howl : the 1952 56 rabies crisis and the creation of the urban wild at Banff / George Colpitts
- Arctic capital : managing polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba / Kristoffer Archibald
- Cetaceans in the city : orca captivity, animal rights, and environmental values in Vancouver / Jason Colby.