Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories

294 Pages·2012·4.171 MB·English

by  Peter Atkins (Editor)

AnimAl cities
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Animal cities
Beastly Urban Histories
Edited by
Peter Atkins
Durham University, UK
© Peter Atkins 2012
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Animal cities : beastly urban histories.
1. Urban animals. 2. Urban animals--History--19th
century. 3. Urban animals--Health aspects. 4. Urban
livestock production systems--History--19th century.
5. land use, Urban--History. 6. sociology, Urban--
History.
i. Atkins, P. J. (Peter J.)
304.2’7’091732-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Animal cities : beastly urban histories / [edited] by Peter Atkins.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-1-4094-4655-2 (hardback) -- isBn 978-1-4094-4656-9 (ebook)
1. Urban animals--History. 2. Urban ecology (Biology) i. Atkins, P. J. (Peter J.)
QH541.5.c6A535 2012
591.75'6--dc23
2011052209
isBn 9781409446552
isBn 9781409446569
V
Printed and bound in Great Britain by the
mPG Books Group, Uk.
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction 1
Peter Atkins
2 Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London 19
Peter Atkins
3 The ‘Charmed Circle’ 53
Peter Atkins
4 The Urban Blood and Guts Economy 77
Peter Atkins
5 This Nefarious Traffic: Livestock and Public Health in
Mid-Victorian Edinburgh 107
Paul Laxton
6 Undesirable Nature: Animals, Resources and Urban Nuisance in
Nineteenth-Century Paris 173
Sabine Barles
7 Locating the Transformation of Sensibilities in Nineteenth-Century
London 189
Takashi Ito
8 Fowls and the Contested Productive Spaces of Australian
Suburbia, 1890–1990 205
Andrea Gaynor
vi Animal Cities
9 Between the Muzzle and the Leash: Dog-walking, Discipline, and
the Modern City 221
Philip Howell
References 243
Index 277
List of Figures
2.1 Urban cowshed 42
2.2 A London sheep-fold 45
3.1 The manured region around London in the first decade of
the nineteenth century 55
4.1 The Slaughterman 83
5.1 Edinburgh in the 1860s 111
5.2 Prosecutions for possessing unfit food intended for sale, 1851–80 115
5.3 Byres and dairy cows in Edinburgh, Summer 1864 143
5.4 Sales of cattle at the Edinburgh livestock market, 1862–6;
mean number of beasts presented for sale per week by quarter 160
6.1 Horses stabled in Paris, 1820–1931 175
6.2 Domestic livestock entering Paris, 1801–1912 (thousands of head) 176
6.3 Traffic in selected streets of Paris, 1851 and 1881–82 (thousands
of collars per day) 180
6.4 People ‘run over by carriages’, Paris, 1817–1897 182
7.1 View of the camel house in the Zoological Gardens, London 196
7.2 Study of cattle in Smithfield Market 197
7.3 A zoo visitor in the form of a crocodile indulging in zoological
recreations 199
7.4 ‘Brown, Jones, and Robinson go the Zoological Gardens’ 200
7.5 Dancing a hippopotamus polka 202
8.1 Premier Poultry Farms, c.1930 208
9.1 ‘New Year’s Day with the dogs – within and without the Pale’ 231
9.2 ‘New Year’s Day with the dogs: an indignation meeting in
the country’ 232
9.3 ‘The repeal of the muzzling order’ 233
9.4 ‘Drink, puppy, drink’ 237
9.5 ‘Protect our protectors’ 239
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List of Tables
2.1 Cow numbers in London 1718–1914 39
2.2 The milk supply of Paris, 1843–69 41
3.1 Estimates of extent of market gardens around London, 1795–1879 64
3.2 Market garden specialisms around London, 1792–1879 65
3.3 Animal manure produced in London, 1800–1893 66
A3.1 The sale of scavenged manure, 1845 74
4.1 1851: Districts of London with high concentrations of employment
in selected animal industries 96
4.2 Weight of the body parts of fat cattle 99
4.3 Horse carcase by-products, 1873 104
4.4 London traders in animal waste, 1873 104
6.1 Horse rendering yields, Paris, beginning of the nineteenth century 177