The gospel of kindness : animal welfare and the making of modern America / Janet M. Davis.
"When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss animal protectionism as a modern s...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- "A righteous man regards the life of his beast": The Roots of the Gospel of kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Reform
- "A World of Kindness is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien Other
- An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and Moral Expansionism Overseas
- "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia
- "So Thoroughly Un-American": Making Historical Sense of the Bullfight.