The gospel of kindness : animal welfare and the making of modern America / Janet M. Davis.
This book investigates the historical significance of the American animal welfare movement at home and overseas from the Second Great Awakening to the Second World War, a time span encompassing the nation's shift from muscle power to motorization. Dedicated primarily to laboring animals at its...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Gospel of Kindness; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "A Righteous Man Regards the Life of His Beast": The Roots of the Gospel of Kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Reform; 2. "A World of Kindness Is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; 3. From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien Other; 4. An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and Moral Expansionism Overseas; 5. "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia.
- 6. "So Thoroughly Un-​American": Making Historical Sense of the BullfightConclusion; Notes; Index