Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals

by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Book Overview

A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid

Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525659064
• ISBN13: 9780525659068
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.3"