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Format	Hardback
Published	May 23, 2023
ISBN-13	9780295751412
Language	English
Pages	240
Illustrations	14 b&w illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$105.00 USD, £84.00 GBP
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Format	Paperback / softback
Published	May 23, 2023
ISBN-13	9780295751429
Language	English
Pages	240
Illustrations	14 b&w illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$30.00 USD, £22.99 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Bellwether Histories

Name: Bellwether Histories
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ISBN: 9780295751412

Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis

Edited by Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks

University of Washington Press

A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created and perpetuated untenable and unequal interspecies relationships. The collection's authors explore how people misunderstood or ignored animal crises precipitated by habitat destruction and population declines, sudden dependence on human aid, shifts from freedom to captivity, or subjection to overextended management systems.

Chapters address a range of themes, including the links between antislavery and anti-animal-cruelty advocacy; how cattle, horse, and pig behavior shaped human life and technology; and the politics of caring for and trafficking wild animals. This volume interrogates the history of animal disposability and its ideological twin in US history, human exceptionalism—the anthropocentric myth that people could harm animals without harming themselves.

Today's mass extinctions and ecological breakdowns ensure deadly zoonotic pandemics and global warming will harass us far into the future. Bellwether Histories looks back at how animals have been warning us of our collective fate and asks why they were so seldom heard.

Publisher	University of Washington Press
BISAC Subject Headings	HISTORY / United States / General (410 Titles) NATURE / General (15 Titles) NATURE / Animals / General (8 Titles)

Format	Hardback
Published	May 23, 2023
ISBN-13	9780295751412
Language	English
Pages	240
Illustrations	14 b&w illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$105.00 USD, £84.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	May 23, 2023
ISBN-13	9780295751429
Language	English
Pages	240
Illustrations	14 b&w illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$30.00 USD, £22.99 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference