Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History

Volume II continues the discussion of animals/animality in U.S. social and scientific thought to address the ways in which the nexus of ideas surrounding human-animal distinctions became intertwined with interhuman hierarchies and power relations, including through the synergistic dynamics between race and species as co-implicating "e;taxonomies of power"e; (Claire Jean Kim) that informed both cha...