Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals

by Rod Preece

In this provocative inquiry into the status of animals in human society from the fifth century BC to the present, Rod Preece provides a wholly new perspective on the human-animal relationship. Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution traces the historical status of animals in western civilization, and shows that current scholarship in this area is seriously deficient. Preece particularly contests the customary claims: that the Christian doctrine has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774811560
• ISBN13: 9780774811569
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.