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Download Chapter I -- The Antebellum Antecedents of Animal Protection (4.5 MB)
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Download Chapter XII -- Animal Control, the Shelter, and the Companion Animal (4.4 MB)
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Abstract
This study situates organized concern for animals in relation to other postCivil War reforms--including temperance and child protection. It explains the rise of humane work in light of antebellum trends in law, education, philosophy, and religion, and the perception that animals were at the heart of many sanitary and public health concerns. It qualifies interpretations that reduce animal protection to an exercise in social control. It denies the importance of the Darwinian assertion that humans were animals to the movement's formation. Finally, it disputes claims that concern for animals served a "displacement" function until some human reforms became socially acceptable.
Publication Date
2002
Publisher
American University
City
Washington, DC
Disciplines
Animal Studies | Civic and Community Engagement | Politics and Social Change
Recommended Citation
Unti, Bernard, "The Quality of Mercy: Organized Animal Protection in the United States 1866-1930" (2002). . 2.
https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/smaobg/2
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Comments
Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of American University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History.