Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century

Volume I traces the significance of animals, and the "problem" of animality, within the currents of U.S. social and scientific thought during a period marked by a rapid expansion of American and transatlantic print culture.

Dominik Ohrem is Research Associate at MESH - Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities and Postdoctoral Researcher at HESCOR (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research) at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is focused on the history and philosophy of human-animal and multispecies relations.

Volume 1: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 1) General Introduction Volume 1 Introduction 1. William Bartram, "Anecdotes of an American Crow", Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal 1 (1804): 89-95. 2. Frederick Augustus Rauch, extract from Psychology; or, a View of the Human Soul; Including Anthropology (New York: M. W. Dodd, 1841), pp. 9-17, 30-44. 3. Phrenology and Animal "Character" in the American Phrenological Journal (1845-1851) 3.1 [Orson Fowler], "The Physiology, Phrenology, and Natural History, of the Ourang Outang, or Chimpanze." American Phrenological Journal 7, no. 3 (March 1845): 65-70. 3.2 "Animal Phrenology." American Phrenological Journal 13, no. 1 (January 1851): 6-7. 3.3 "Animal Phrenology. Number II." American Phrenological Journal 13, no. 2 (February 1851): 32. 4. Lewis Henry Morgan, "Animal Psyhology", in The American Beaver and His Works (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1868). 5. Arthur E. Brown, [Primate Minds and Morals in the Philadelphia Zoo], The American Naturalist (1878-1883) 5. 1 Arthur Erwin Brown. "The Serpent and the Ape." The American Naturalist 12, no. 4 (April 1878): 225-28. 5.2 ----, "Grief in the Chimpanzee." The American Naturalist 13, no. 3 (March 1879): 173-75. 5.3 ----, "The Kindred of Man." The American Naturalist 17, no. 2 (February 1883): 119-30. 6. Francis Bowen, "The Human and the Brute Mind", The Princeton Review 56 (May 1880): 321-29, 331-34, 336-38, 340-43. 7. William James, "What Is an Instinct?" Scribner's Magazine 1, no. 3 (March 1887): 355-65. 8. Richard Lynch Garner, [Learning the Simian Tongue], from The Speech of Monkeys" (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892), pp. 3-21, 30-9, 57-67 9. Edward Lee Thorndike, "Do Animals Reason?" Popular Science Monthly 55 (August 1899): 480-490, and "Correspondence: 'Do Animals Reason?'" Popular Science Monthly 55 (October 1899): 843-847. 10. Ernest Ingersoll, "Do Animals Commit Suicide? A Study of Brute Limitations', in The Wit of the Wild. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1906), pp. 196-210. 11. William Temple Hornaday, [Animal Crime and Criminal Animals], "The Psychology of Wild Animals", McClure's Magazine 30, no. 4 (February 1908): 469-79. 12. Margaret Floy Washburn, [Mathods and Challenges in Studying Animal Minds], from The Animal Mind: A Text-Book of Comparative Psychology (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908), pp. 1-5, 7-13, 24-36. 13. Charles Abram Ellwood, "The Origin of Society." American Journal of Sociology 15, no. 3 (November 1909): 394-404. 14. Ira Woods Howerth, "The Great War and the Instinct of the Herd", International Journal of Ethics 29, no. 2 (1919): 174-87. Index