Beastly natures : animals, humans, and the study of history / edited by Dorothee Brantz.

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Does "the animal" exist? Toward a theory of social life with animals / Susan J. Pearson and Mary Weismantel -- Touching animals : the search for a deeper understanding of animals / Nigel Rothfels -- Wolves in sheep's (and others') clothing / Garry Marvin -- Darwin in the monkey cage : the zoological garden as a medium of evolutionary theory / Oliver Hochadel -- Why the rhinoceros doesn't talk : the cultural life of a wild animal in America / Kelly Enright -- The alligator's allure : changing perceptions of a charismatic carnivore / Mark V. Barrow Jr. -- Nature bridled : the treatment and training of horses in early modern England / Peter Edwards -- The public and private lives of "first dogs" : Warren G. Harding's Laddie Boy and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fala / Helena Pycior -- The legacy of Laika : celebrity, sacrifice, and the Soviet space dogs / Amy Nelson -- The horse in the nineteenth-century American city / Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr -- "Poor dumb brutes" or "friends in need"? Animals and river floods in modern Germany and the United States / Uwe Lübken -- Counting sheep in the English Lake District : rare breeds, local knowledge, and environmental history / Harriet Ritvo.