ANIMALS AND THE INTIMACY OF HISTORY.
This article surveys recent historical writings on animals. Its principal concerns are the manner in which historians grant agency to animals and how that agency functions in historical narration. The article examines the histories of animals in Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and North America in or...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 45 - 68 |
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