The historical animal / edited by Susan Nance.

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2015]

ix, 405 pages ; 24 cm

First edition.

Part One. Historicizing Nonhumans. 1. Change in black and white : killer whale bodies and the new Pacific Northwest / Jason Colby ; 2. Beasts of burden : feral burros and the American West / Abraham H. Gibson ; 3. Zombie zoology : history and reanimating extinct animals / Sandra Swart -- Part Two. Archives and the Animal Trace. 4. Animal archive stories : species anxieties in the Mexican National Archive / Zeb Tortorici ; 5. Finding animals in history : veterinary artifacts and the use of material history / Lisa Cox ; 6. Nonhuman animal testimonies : a natural history in the first person? / Concepción Cortés Zulueta -- Part Three. The Animal Factor of Historical Causation. 7. Horses and actor-networks : manufacturing travel in later medieval England / David Gary Shaw ; 8. Species agency : a comparative study of horse-human relationships in Chicago and rural Illinois / Andria Pooley-Ebert ; 9. Too sullen for survival : historicizing gorilla extinction, 1900-1930 / Noah Cincinnati ; 10. Migrant muskoxen and the naturalization of national identity in Scandinavia / Dolly Jørgensen -- Part Four. Animals Coping with/Adapting to Us. 11. Exploring early human-animal encounters in the Galápagos Islands using a historical zoology approach / Nicola Foote and Charles W. Gunnels IV ; 12. Of leopards and lesser animals : trials and tribulations of the "human-leopard murders" in colonial Africa / Stephanie Zehnle ; 13. Mountain meeting ground : history at an intersection of species / Drew A. Swanson -- Part Five. Documenting Interspecific Partnerships. 14. Viewing the anthrozootic city : humans, domesticated animals, and the making of early nineteenth-century New York / Scott A. Miltenberger ; 15. "He took care of me" : the human-animal bond in Canada's Great War / Andrew McEwen ; 16. Tony the Wonder Horse : a star study / Courtney E. White.

Includes bibliographical references and index.