Description: This book charts the evolution of animal history from 1800 to the present day, and is an essential companion for students navigating the methodological and historiographical practices of the field.
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Heiko Feldner is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, UK.
Heiko Feldner is co-director of the Centre for Ideology Critique and Zizek Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is also the General Editor of Bloomsbury's Writing History series on historiography and historical theory, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. A former lecturer in the departments of political economy and history at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, he has written several books, including Zizek: Beyond Foucault (with F. Vighi, Palgrave 2007).Review Quotes:
"Timm Schönfelder offers us an ideal starting place for exploring the rich field of animal history. Readers will leave with a comprehensive understanding of how historians have written about animals, an appetite to delve further into scholarship, and fresh thoughts about the non-human creatures that surround us." --Andy Bruno, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
"Species History is one of the fastest-growing, most popular and useful subfields within the diverse Environmental Humanities. The author takes us on an animal history journey, marine and terrestrial, wild and domestic, cherished and despised, exploring shifting human attitudes, values and perceptions over time. We have shaped their destinies, and they ours. This is a book that challenges us to think not just about Nature, but about human nature." --Rob Lambert, University of Nottingham, UK