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  . . . this brief, well-documented volume provides a useful gateway into an important and absorbing body of scholarship.

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  Clio

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  Written in an engaging style with the authors keen attention focused upon her reader, Kalofs monograph provides a rapid and concise overview of the reciprocal relationship between animals and humans from pre-history to modern times . . . The book should find a ready audience among animal lovers, who will find much to enjoy.

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  Agricultural History Review

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  Linda Kalofs account allows neither denial nor escape, while nourishing the commitment to somehow recraft actual inter-species relationships into more livable patterns.

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  Professor Donna Haraway

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  A vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative . . . A valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies.

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  Randy Malamud, author of Reading Zoos and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls.

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  Linda Kalof devastates the idea that animals do not matter, that they are irrelevant to human history. Her fascinating book should provoke much discussion.

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  Jim Mason, US lawyer and co-author of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter.

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  Linda Kalof has brought a fresh approach to describing the multiplicity of ways in which humans have interacted with animals – from the prey of ice age hunters to the virtual animals in todays electronic world. This eminently readable book will appeal not only to all those with an interest in the animal world but also to students of social and art history.

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  Juliet Clutton-Brock, archaeozoologist and author of A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals.

Preface
 
1     Prehistory, before 5000 BC
               New Relationships
 
2     Antiquity, 5000 BC - AD 500
               Untamed Nature, Cities and War – Domestication –
               Hunting – Slaughter as Spectacle – Menageries and the Exotic
 
3     The Middle Ages, 500-1400
               Changing Relationships – Animals, Morality, and Sex –
               Animals and Devalued Humans – Domestication – Animals,
               Humans and the Plague – Hunting – Fear – Public
               Processions and Rituals – Animal Trials – Entertainment –
               Medieval Menageries
 
4     The Renaissance, 1400-1600
               Death, Disease and Dead Animals – Hunting – Social Disorder
               and Animal Massacres – Animal-baiting – Cultural Analyses of
               Animal-baiting – Ceremony and Ritual – Horns, Masculinity
               and Honour – Looking Toward Animal Welfare
 
5     The Enlightenment, 1600-1800
               Dead Animal Portraiture – Live Animal Portraiture –
               Animal Massacres as Ritual – Exhibition as Entertainment –
               Exotics and Pets – Dogs and Rabies – Exhibition as Education –
               Growing Opposition to Cruelty – Looking at Cruelty
 
6     Modernity, 1800-2000
               Dogcarts, Rabies and Sex – Natural History and Hunting –
               Spectacles of Game Hunting – Zoo Spectacles –
               Theme Park Spectacles – Bullfighting as Ritual –
               Looking at the Postmodern Animal
 
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
 
              

Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her books include The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values (2005) and The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings (2007).