Animal History

New! Tracks in the Field - "Byzantine Animals: Forgotten Citizens of a 'Forgotten' Empire" by Przemysław Marciniak online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1

Friends! Vol 2, No 1 is hot off the presses with articles about Japan, Transylvania, and China, plus a 'Tracks in the Field' Essay on animals of the Byzantine era: online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1

NEW! "Animal Bridges: Mules in the Making of Asia's Largest Transregional Networks, 1870s-1940s" by Iftekhar Iqbal online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/4

New article! "Horse Play: Celebrity, Nationalism, and the Fall of a Racing Icon in Imperial Russia" by Olga Petri online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/4

New article! "From Manticore to the Healing Lion Skin: Ḥayāt al-Ḥayawān in the Ottoman Context" by Ahmet Göksu and Fatma Afyoncu online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/4

New article in Issue no. 4: "Of Lumpi, Putzi, and Schlupp: Human-Animal Relationships in Nazi Children's and Youth Literature" by Andreas Hübner and Mieke Roscher online.ucpress.edu/ah

NEW tracks in the field: Frédéric Laugrand - "Sentient Beings, Hunting, and Respect: Animals and Inuit Cosmologies in the Canadian Arctic" online.ucpress.edu/ah

Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!

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"The Anonymous Animal: (Not) Naming and (Not) Knowing in the Anthropocene" by Whitney Barlow Robles, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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"The Mediterranean Fruit Fly in the Global Arena" by Jessica Wang, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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"Talking to Lions: Human-Animal Cultures and the Power of Stories" by Sandra Swart, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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"Coyotes, Cougars, Californians: Views on Changing Animal Relations at the Natural History Museum of LA County" by Alison Laurence, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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"Charles Darwin and Cats" by Janet Browne, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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Special Issue out now! 'Animals and the History of Natural History' - Guest Editors: Rebecca Woods (Univ. of Toronto) & Anya Zilberstein (Concordia Univ., Montréal)
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new article! Anna Lisa Taylor "Dogs, Lions, and Saints: Real and Imaginary Animals in Early Christianity" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/2

FREE! new article - Holly Marriott Webb "On the Uses of Fieldwork in Animal History: Deer Stalking and the Ephemeral Archive" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/2

FREE! article from Issue 2:
Sam Dolbee - Street Dogs of Kurtuluş and Paths to Animal History of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa
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FREE from Issue 1, no. 1: Hess, "The Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and Their Riders in the American Civil War" [image: Edwin Forbes, US Cavalry Horse, 1863, Library of Congress] online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

FREE from Issue 1, no. 1: Nikkilä, "Building a Nest in Human-Built Spaces: Tracing the Experiences of Finnish Sows, c. 1900–1930s" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

FREE article: Blakley "Historicizing the 'Beast-Man': On Slavery and Human-Animal Studies" Issue 1, no. 1

From Issue 1, no. 1 - "What is Animal Prehistory?" by Shumon T. Hussain: FREE article, online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

Our inaugural issue Volume 1, Number 1 is FREE! online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

The Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and Their Riders in the American Civil War Issues germane to animal history and military history intersect in the study of cavalry horses and their riders during the American Civil War. Animal historians should understand that warfare created ...

New Article! Hess, "Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and their Riders in the American Civil War" doi.org/10.1525/ah.2...

Review: Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar, by Jonathan Saha The publication of the inaugural issue of Animal History, the first academic journal dedicated to the histories of animals and human-animal relationships, coming two decades after “Animals in History,...

Issue 1, no. 1 - advance release article: Skabelund review of Saha, Colonizing Animals
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What Is Animal Prehistory? This paper engages animal archaeologies with key debates in animal history. Animal archaeology is currently and primarily framed as a multi-species venture, and a brief review of its disciplinary gene...

Issue 1, no. 1 - open-access advance release article: Hussein, "What is Animal Prehistory?"
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Animal History: A Brief Introduction to Its Past and Future The first issue of a new scholarly journal is an important moment to mark out the state of the field, its past, and possible future goals. Animal History is dedicated to cultivating and featuring rigo...

Although our first issue doesn't come out till next year, our inaugural essay is out now!
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An amazing 35 people showed up at 7:15 am for the Animal History Breakfast at the ASEH conference in Denver on Friday. Thanks to everyone who appeared to share their research and interest!
(photo: Stephanie Wolf / CPR News)

The Animal History Breakfast at ASEH in Denver is Friday, April 5 at 7:15am. There will be coffee and editors from the journal ready to hear about your animal history research. See you there!
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Meet the Editors of Animal History – ASEH Connects Virtual Series, November 20 1:30pm est - zoom: brown.zoom.us/j/93883122463
Please join us!