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

This volume addresses the broad topic of "thinking animality" in the long nineteenth century and the constitutive interplay between conceptualizations of the animal and the human that bolstered but also challenged the widespread idea of human uniqueness. The purpose of this volume is to trace the conceptual workings of animality within and across specific domains of social and scientific thought. The sources collected in this volume is intended to outline an intellectual history of animality in the long nineteenth century.