The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History is an up-to-date guide for those working in the growing field of animal-human history. Exploring the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships, it is a timely and important contribution to animal-human history and the surrounding debates.
'With incisive writing from some excellent contributors, this volume makes a substantial contribution?to our understanding of the complexity and diversity of animal-human?histories.'
Steve Baker, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Central Lancashire, UK
'Until relatively recently, historians have been guilty of selectively ignoring the role that relationships with nonhuman animals have played in shaping, and in some cases transforming, human history. The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a series of timely and outstanding reviews of the complex issues and exciting opportunities that arise when the "conjoined histories" of humans and other animals are reconsidered.'
James Serpell, University of Pennsylvania, USA
'As the study of animal-human history continues to grow and diversify, I am sure that this 'state of the art' collection of essays will become a vital source. It opens up new, thought-provoking approaches to a range of themes, especially the active roles that animals have played in human history, and is lavishly referenced.'
Professor Diana Donald, author of Picturing Animals in Britain, 1750-1850
'Setting out from an exemplary introduction to key issues in thinking about human-animal histories, the authors here are excellent companions with whom to journey into these mutual pasts. They indicate and explore ways in which human-animal histories can be researched, recovered, remade, and written in illuminating, instructive, and provocative ways.'
Garry Marvin, Professor of Human-Animal Studies, University of Roehampton, UK
'Overall, then, the Companion showcases not only animal-human history's immense scope, but also the lively contradictions that abound within it ... Certainly, the political decision to include animals more explicitly in our historical writing and research is to be celebrated, not only for the intriguing questions this opens up, but for the potential futurestowards which such work might lead.
Ben Garlick, Journal of Historical Geographyy
'...a truly important contribution to the fast-expanding field...'
Erica Fudge, Society & Animals
'As a wide-ranging survey of where animal-human history has been, what it is now, and which tools and approaches can be used to expand its reach in the future, the Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History is itself a statement of the coming of age of the field.'
Nancy Cushing, Anthrozoös
'Kean and Howell have put together an extraordinary collection which will be a classic text not only for animal-human history in particular, but for human animal studies in general. With the proliferation of debates included and furthered here The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History will inspire scholars well-versed in human animal studies as well as researchers and students beginning such studies.'
Wendy Woodward, Animal Studies Journal
'...a solid overview of the field of animal-human history, showing the massive amount of work that has been done in the last few years in this relatively young subdiscipline... It is a useful tool for historians interested in animal-human history and those already involved in this subdiscipline.'
Kirsten Weitering, TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
