Bellwether Histories

Susan Nance is professor of history at the University of Guelph and affiliated faculty with the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare. She is author of three books, including Rodeo: An Animal History. Jennifer Marks is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Iowa and works as a technical writer in Portland, Oregon. Contributors: Vanessa Bateman, Joshua Abram Kercsmar, John M. Kinder, Jennifer Marks, Susan Nance, Andrea Ringer, Mary Trachsel, and Jessica Wang

Preface

Introduction: The Mule in the Coal Mine

1. Interspecies Anticapitalism in English and American Humanitarian Writings, ca. 1800–1850

Joshua Abram Kercsmar

2. Chicago’s 1872 Equine Influenza Epizootic and the Evolution of Urban Transit Technology

Jennifer G. Marks

3. Cattle and Blizzards: Lessons from the Big Die-Up in 1880s Montana

Susan Nance

4. Animal Photography and the “Elk Problem” in Modern Wyoming

Vanessa Bateman

5. Animals, Infrastructure, and Empire: Insects and Birds as Biological Control Agents in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i

Jessica Wang

6. Captive Breeding and the Commodification of “Surplus” Animals at the Central Park Zoo, 1886–1974

Andrea Ringer

7. The Destructive Ecology of Human-Pig Relations in Iowa since 1950

Mary Trachsel

8. “The Next Meal for the Lions”: The US Occupation of the Baghdad Zoo, 2003–2004

John M. Kinder

List of Contributors

Index