{"product_id":"animal-biographies-toward-a-history-of-individuals-paperback","title":"Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eÉric Baratay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLindsay Turner\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Éric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowledge of historical methodologies to give voice to some of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most interesting animals. He offers brief yet innovative accounts of these animals' lives in a way that challenges the reader's thinking about animals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBaratay illustrates the need to develop a nonanthropocentric means of viewing the lives of animals and including animals themselves in the narrative of their lives. \u003ci\u003eAnimal Biographies\u003c\/i\u003e launches an all-new investigation into the lives of animals and is a major contribution to the field of animal studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis English translation of Éric Baratay's \u003ci\u003eBiographies animales: Des Vies retrouvées\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in France in 2017 (Éditions du Seuil), uses firsthand accounts starting from the nineteenth century about specific animals who lived in Europe and the United States to reconstruct, as best as possible, their stories as they would have experienced them. History is, after all, not just the domain of humans. Animals have their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBaratay breaks the model of human exceptionalism to give us the biographies of some of history and literature's most famous animals. The reader will catch a glimpse of storied lives as told by Modestine, the donkey who carried Robert Louis Stevenson through the Alps; Warrior, the World War I horse made famous in Steven Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eWar Horse\u003c\/i\u003e; Islero, the bull who gored Spain's greatest bullfighter; and others. Through these stories we discover their histories, their personalities, and their shared experiences with others of their species.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eÉRIC BARATAY is professor of contemporary history at the Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon. A specialist in animal history, Baratay is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eLa Société des animaux de la Révolution à la Libération \u003c\/i\u003e(The Society of Animals from the Revolution to Liberation)\u003ci\u003e, Portraits d'animaux\u003c\/i\u003e (Animal Portraits), and \u003ci\u003eEt l'homme créa l'animal \u003c\/i\u003e(And Man created the Animal).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759445279008,"sku":"9780820362182","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7ef30fe3d9fcc4ccf452a0fad8bcc055.webp?v=1780152889","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/animal-biographies-toward-a-history-of-individuals-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}