Catalyst & Specialized Databases
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Contains information about scholarly articles on the history and culture of the U. S. and Canada. (For World History, use Historical Abstracts) - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present. - ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Database This link opens in a new window
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This tool searches across the AGRICOLA, ESPM, and EIS databases, and it provides full-text titles from around the world. It includes scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. Covers 1960-current. - AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
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Find article information about all aspects of agricultural research, 1970-current.
Starting places...
- Book Series: Animal (Reaktion Books)
A series of 50+ books about individual animals. Each illustrated volume explores their subjects in art, literature, mythology and religion, as well as its evolution, species, behaviour and habitat. Browse the series on the publisher's website.
Book Series: Animalibus: Of Animals and CulturesCall Number: ONLINEPublication Date: 2012-Books in the series share a fascination not only with the importance of animals in human life, but also with how thinking about animals can give us insights into human cultures, in different temporal and geographical contexts. Browse the series on the publisher's website.
Gender and Animals in History by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9789048565283Publication Date: 2024More info in Catalyst...
Authors discuss how gender history can be enriched through the study of animals. Includes content on the Global North and Global South; Middle Ages and contemporary world; and small and large animals.
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities by ISBN: 9781138786745Publication Date: 2017A comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship.
The Routledge Companion to Human-Animal HistoryCall Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781138193260Publication Date: 2018More info in Catalyst
An up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history.
Scholarly Journals
Humanimalia (journal)Call Number: ONLINEPublication Date: 2009-presentThis journal aims to: to explore and advance the vast range of scholarship on human-animal relations, to encourage exchange among scholars working from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and to promote dialogue between the academic community and those working closely with animals in non-academic fields.Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (JAAWS)
Call Number: ONLINEPublication Date: 1998-presentPublishes papers on methods of experimentation, husbandry, and care, enhancing animal welfare in laboratory, farm, companion animal and wildlife/zoo settings.
Societies and Institutes
- Animal & Society InstituteIncludes articles, policy papers, newsletters, and more.
- Animal History GroupA forum for animal historians. Contains book club and reading group (good list of books to investigate), conference and seminar series (good for getting topic ideas), and more.
