A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

by Ernest Freeberg

Book Overview

From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement. From the center of these debates, Henry Bergh launched a shocking campaign to grant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465093868
• ISBN13: 9780465093861
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.5"