Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Tables xii
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Canamalia Urbanis 1
7. The Memory of an Elephant: Savagery, Civilization, and Spectacle 29
8. The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840–1914 57
9. Wild Things: Taming Canada’s Animal Welfare Movement 87
10. Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada 115
11. The Beavers of Stanley Park 139
12. Species at Risk: C. Tetani, the Horse, and the Human 155
13. Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880–1940 189
14. Howl: The 1952–56 Rabies Crisis and the Creation of the Urban Wild at Banff 219
15. Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba 255
16. Cetaceans in the City: Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in Vancouver 285
17. Why Animals Matter in Urban History, or Why Cities Matter in Animal History 309
18. Contributors 325
19. Index 329