Our Kindred Creatures How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals [Audiobook] [#759419]

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English | ASIN: B0CDF5JGP4 | 2024 | 13 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 399 MB
Author: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
Narrator: Tanis Parenteau
A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors. Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, their suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nation's laws and norms, and by the century's end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst. In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life.