Book ID: CBB273600224

The city is more than human: an animal history of Seattle (2016)

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Frederick L. Brown (Author)


University of Washington Press


Publication Date: 2016
Edition Details: Book Series: Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Physical Details: 331
Language: English

Animals have played a vital role in shaping the city of Seattle from its founding amid existing indigenous towns in the mid-nineteenth century to the livestock-friendly town of the late nineteenth century to the pet-friendly, livestock-averse modern city. When newcomers first arrived in the 1850s, they hastened to assemble the familiar cohort of cattle, horses, pigs, chickens, and other animals that defined European agriculture. This, in turn, contributed to the dispossession of the Native residents of the area. However, just as these animals were used to create a Euro-American city, the elimination of these same animals from Seattle was key to the creation of the new middle-class neighborhoods of the twentieth century. As dogs and cats came to symbolize home and family, Seattleites' relationship with livestock became distant and exploitative, demonstrating the deep social contradictions that characterize the modern American metropolis. Throughout Seattle's history, people have sorted animals into categories and into places as a way of asserting power over animals, other people, and property. In this book, Frederick Brown explores the dynamic, troubled relationship humans have with animals. In so doing he challenges us to acknowledge the role of animals of all sorts in the making and remaking of cities. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Gibson, Abraham Hill
Sanders, Jeffrey C.
Alagona, Peter S.
O'Shea, Dean
Janet M. Davis
Mariana Mogilevich
Concepts
Human-animal relationships
Animals
Cities and towns
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Environmental history
Social change
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Seattle (Washington, U.S.)
Great Britain
Southern states (U.S.)
London (England)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
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