The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current
scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory …

Burmese pythons flourish in the Everglades even as the massive wetland itself shows signs
of collapse. Asian Milfoil now clogs the ponds of Vermont, while the Asian Shore Crab …

IN 1543, A TAino MAN HAD BEEN living in the mountains in the central southern part of
Hispaniola for twelve years. Though ffuent in Spanish and familiar with Spanish ways, he …

The eighteenth century saw the rise of new and more sympathetic understanding of animals
as philosophy, literature, and art argued that animals could feel and therefore possess …

Robert GW Kirk is Reader in Medical History and Humanities, Centre for the History of
Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester, UK. His work …

The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain,
illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This …

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW FEBRUARY 2015 he jumps from the fifteenth century to
the nineteenth century without comment (p. 45). Overall, this is an impressive synthesis of …

While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Jennifer Clement argues
here, it is central to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century understandings of Christian faith and …

A generation ago animal history was in its infancy, if hard to place historiographically. Was it
an extension of growing environmental awareness in the humanities, with nonhuman …

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging,
authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international …