Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Texts and Terms xv
6. Face: Creatures and Cosmopolitans: Before “the Animal” 1
7. 1. The Law’s First Subjects: Animal Stakeholders, Human Tyranny, and the Political Life of Early Modern Genesis 29
8. 2. A Cat May Look upon a King: Four-Footed Estate, Locomotion, and the Prerogative of Free Animals 82
9. 3. Poor, Bare, Forked: Animal Happiness and the Zoographic Critique of Humanity 127
10. 4. Night-Rule: The Alternative Politics of the Dark; or, Empires of the Nonhuman 174
11. 5. Hang-Dog Looks: From Subjects at Law to Objects of Science in Animal Trials 218
12. Tail: Raleigh’s Ark: The Early Modern Arithmetic of Livestock 270
13. Index 285