03768cam a2200397 i 4500 1464489318 TxAuBib 20240731120000.0 230310s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023003995 9780525659068 hardcover $35.00 0525659064 hardcover $35.00 (OCoLC)1404821600 TxAuBib rda Wasik, Bill, author. Our kindred creatures [Book] : how Americans came to feel the way they do about animals / Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. ©2024. viii, 450 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-429 and index.) Introduction: A new type of goodness -- Part One. Beachheads (1866-1876). Kindling kindness -- Animal New York -- Under the knife -- The living curiosities -- To Philadelphia and Boston -- Meatropolis -- The horse doctors -- Every buffalo dead -- Slippery slopes -- Part Two. Standoffs (1185-1896). A new order of chivalry -- Here come the elephants! -- An eye on your dog -- For the birds -- A great preacher -- The slaughter factories -- The zoophilists -- Died beloved -- Afterword: The exploded circle -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. "A compassionate, sweeping narrative about the transformation in American attitudes toward animals, particularly after the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher. "Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nation's laws and norms, and by the century's end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst. In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life. On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Massachusetts's animal-welfare society and the American publisher of the novel Black Beauty; Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Caroline White of Philadelphia, who fought against medical experiments that used live animals; and many more, including some of the nation's earliest veterinarians and conservationists. Caught in the movement's crosshairs were transformational figures in their own right: animal impresarios such as P. T. Barnum, industrial meat barons such as Philip D. Armour, and the nation's rising medical establishment, all of whom put forward their own, very different sets of modern norms about how animals should be treated." -- Provided by publisher. 20240731. Animal rights United States History 19th century. Animal welfare United States History 19th century. Animals United States Moral and ethical aspects. Informational works. Murphy, Monica, 1970-, author. RV8