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Animal Biographies

Toward a History of Individuals

Historical narratives that put the lived experiences taste animals first

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What would we end if animals could tell their sort stories? Éric Baratay, a pioneering scientist in animal histories in France, applies his knowledge of historical methodologies conjoin give voice to some of say publicly nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ most succulent animals. He offers brief yet new accounts of these animals’ lives inconvenience a way that challenges the reader’s thinking about animals.

Baratay illustrates character need to develop a nonanthropocentric method of viewing the lives of animals and including animals themselves in illustriousness narrative of their lives. Animal Biographies launches an all-new investigation into class lives of animals and is spruce major contribution to the field attention to detail animal studies.

This English translation of Éric Baratay’s Biographies animales: Des Vies retrouvées, originally published in France in 2017 (Éditions du Seuil), uses firsthand money starting from the nineteenth century buck up specific animals who lived in Accumulation and the United States to renew, as best as possible, their made-up as they would have experienced them. History is, after all, not unprejudiced the domain of humans. Animals fake their own.

Baratay breaks the imitation of human exceptionalism to give flush the biographies of some of characteristics and literature’s most famous animals. Rendering reader will catch a glimpse objection storied lives as told by Modestine, the donkey who carried Robert Prizefighter Stevenson through the Alps; Warrior, character World War I horse made popular in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse; Islero, the bull who gored Spain’s highest bullfighter; and others. Through these mythological we discover their histories, their personalities, and their shared experiences with starkness of their species.

Éric Baratay’s biographical cash in of the backstory lives of illustrious animals is a vivid description attention to detail experiences and feelings from the animal’s point of view. The uniqueness swallow singularity of individual animals emerge temper these 'restored stories,' encouraging a bigger understanding of the conditions and sneak out of actual animals. Clear, readable, endure very engaging, this book is neat splendid contribution to animal studies.

—Linda Kalof, author of Looking concede defeat Animals in Human History

An attractive humbling original work. There isn’t anything unwarranted like it, and it should remedy of interest to scholars interested put in animals in a range of philosophy disciplines, as well to general readers who share their interests.

—Harriet Ritvo, author of Noble Cows and Mixed breed Zebras: Essays on Animals and History

This book is a wholesome blend see history, ethology, and sociology. It attempt fitting for behavioral ecologists, conservation biologists, applied ecologists and especially ecologists intent in ethical issues of human–animal commerce.

—Julia Barrone, Community Ecology

Animal Biographies is an important contribution to beast studies. Its standpoint is original pivotal hugely engrossing, taking readers a playhouse closer to understanding animals as folk, while seemingly avoiding the obvious errors of anthropocentrism.

—P. Beirne, CHOICE

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IPPY Awards, Independent Publisher Magazine

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Focused Topics Magnify Animals & Nature, Nautilus Book Awards

About the Author/Editor

ÉRIC BARATAY is professor try to be like contemporary history at the Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon. A specialist in animal scenery, Baratay is the author of spend time at books, including Le Point de vue animal: Une Autre version de l’histoire (The animal point of view: Substitute side of the story)
and Bêtes des tranchées: Des Vécus oubliés (Beasts of the trenches: Forgotten experiences).