Animal History in the Modern City: Exploring Liminality

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Liminality: A Governing Category in Animate History
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Liminal Lives in the New World
	Liminal lives in Tenochtitlán
	Blurring and clarifying the borders of human and non-human lives
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Liminal Moments: Royal Hunts and Animal Lives in and around Seventeenth-Century Paris
	Noble horses and stray dogs: City, court and the animal kingdom
	Hunting in the city: Louis XIII and the origins of game animals
	Escaping the city: Versailles and the machinery of life and death
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Antisocial Animals in the British Atlantic World: Liminality and Nuisance in Glasgow and New York City, 1660–1760
	Living nuisances
	‘Zombie’ nuisances
	Resisting liminality
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Canaries and Pigeons on the Threshold: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study of Liminal Animal Lives in a Southwest German Hometown
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Giraffe’s Journey in France (1826–7): Entering Another World
	Preamble: Taking the giraffe’s standpoint?
	Back to the giraffe: Her confusing arrival in Marseilles
	Winter in Marseilles: Fear, puzzlement, adaptation
	From Aix to Paris: The trauma of transit
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Elimination of the German Butcher Dog and the Rise of the Modern Slaughterhouse
	No ordinary dog: The butcher dog in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Germany
	The rise of the modern slaughterhouse and the elimination of the butcher dog32
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: It’s Just an Act! Dogs as Actors in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
	Dogs as liminal animals in the modern city
	Liminal animal actors
	Munito, the ‘wonderful dog’
	Rudolf Lang and his performing dogs
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Between Wild and Domestic, Animal and Human, Life and Death: The Problem of the Stray in the Victorian City
	Between wild and domestic: The Battersea Dogs’ Home and the problem of the ‘stray’
	Between animal and human: Beastly slumming at the Dogs Home
	Between life and death: The purgatory of the stray
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Liminal Youth Between Town and Bush: Humans, Leopards and Initiation in West African History
	Expanding the ethnographic concept of liminality
	When leopards come to town, the boys go to the forest
	Colonial migration – or: From leopards to crocodiles
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Betwixt and Between: Making Makeshift Animals in Nineteenth-Century Zoological Gardens
	Introduction: Articulating the history of the modern zoo
	Betwixt and between: The zoo and the fair
	Penning the animal: Imagining and representing captive animals
	Liminal figures: Zoo workers as middlemen
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 12: Liminality in the Post-War Zoo: Animals in East and West Berlin, 1955–61
	The liminality of the zoo
	Playing with the liminal: The design and orchestration of the zoo
	The liminality of the zoo animal
	The liminality of the Cold War era
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 13: Backyard Birds and Human-Made Bat Houses: Domiciles of the Wild in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Cities
	Birdhouses
	Bat bridges
	Building a wilder urban world
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index