HIST 250 - Animals and Ideology in Europe and America,1600 to the present

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Trinity College

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This course offers a history of animal protection in Europe and America which will be of interest to students wondering how our current debates on the status of animals in law and society have come about. Because of the important role women played in the animal protection movements of the nineteenth century and the strong gender component to anti-vivisection arguments in the same era, the course may interest Women, Gender and Sexuality students as well as students in History, Public Policy and Law, and Philosophy Topics include: (1) Puritan arguments about the human/animal divide, which led to the English Ordinance of 1654, Europe's first animal protection law. (2) The bestiality scandals of early America (3) The Game Laws of early modern Europe (4) Colonial and nineteenth-century American issues concerning hunting and the protection of game. (5) Nineteenth-century animal protection societies in Europe and the U.S. (6) The anti-vivisection movement (7) Nazi animal protection and the 'new chain of being' (8) Cold -war animal liberation movements (9) Further development of legal arguments about the rights of animals in the late twentieth century (10) The importance of new work in biological anthropology, ethnology and cognitive science in shaping future debate on the subject of animals in human societies 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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