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　　When did America become so obsessed with its pets? It wasnt as

recently as you might think. In fact, as Katherine C. Grier shows

us in this lively social history, Americans have a long and abiding

fascination with their furry, feathery, and sometimes scaly

friends. Pets in America is the first comprehensive, thoroughly

entertaining account of our long history of animal keeping. From

White House gerbils to Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emersons many cats, from

drug-sniffing dogs to celebrity horses, from pet food to training

to birdcages to art to cemeteriesno aspect of pet culture is left

unexplored. Peppered with the warmth and humor of anecdotes from

period diaries, letters, catalogs, and newspapers, Pets in America

is also packed with more than one hundred whimsical pieces of pet

Americanaillustrations and photographs of all of mans best friends.

Pets in America is fun social history for a popular audience and

pet lovers everywhere.

Introduction: A Modern Pet Owner

A Natural History of Pets

At Home with Animals

A Dog Obituary of 1866: The Life and Death of Ponto

The Bunnie States of America

The Domestic Ethic of Kindness to Animals

The Edges of Pet Keeping and Its Dilemmas

A Pet in Every Home

Buying for Your Best Friend

Epilogue: One View on Pets in Modern America

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

　　KATHERINE C. GRIER is a professor of material culture studies

and director of research programs at the Winterthur Museum and a

visiting professor of history at the University of Delaware. She

lives in Wilmington, Delaware, and Onancock, Virginia, with her

husband, two cats, and two dogs.

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　　PRAISE FOR PETS IN AMERICA "[Grier] probe[s] not just our

changing notions about animals but our changing definition of a

good society . . . Very entertaining." (The New York Times Book

Review )"This work explores the history of animal-human bonding in

the context of a growing country with a diverse population . . . If

the well-written prose is not enough, the illustrations provide a

telling accent." (Bloomsbury Review )In an encyclopedic history,

Grier describes the changing cultural sensibilities that have

defined the experience of American pet owners from colonial times

to the present. Grier, an expert on material culture at the

Winterthur Museum (one of several museums that will display a

traveling exhibition of the same title), draws on diaries,

magazines, advice books, illustrations and photographs for this

serious book reflecting the author's interest in the symbolic and

metaphorical role pets play in our culture. Grier's definition of

"pet" is broad and includes domestic animals like urban horses as

well as chickens and pigs, which were routinely raised by children

on farms as quasi-pets. Although she is primarily interested in

human-animal relationships, Grier doesn't neglect the developing

commercial multibillion-dollar pet industry (Ralston Purina, Grier

relates, began as a livestock feed company, adding dog food only in

1926). Scholarly, thorough, informative and animal friendly as the

book is, Grier would have made many readers even happier had she

occasionally eschewed seriousness in favor of the rich satirical

grounds the excesses of pet-ownership provide. B&W photos.

(Publishers Weekly )

书籍介绍

When did America become so obsessed with its pets? It wasnt as recently as you might think. In fact, as Katherine C. Grier shows us in this lively social history, Americans have a long and abiding fascination with their furry, feathery, and sometimes scaly friends. Pets in America is the first comprehensive, thoroughly entertaining account of our long history of animal keeping. From White House gerbils to Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emersons many cats, from drug-sniffing dogs to celebrity horses, from pet food to training to birdcages to art to cemeteriesno aspect of pet culture is left unexplored. Peppered with the warmth and humor of anecdotes from period diaries, letters, catalogs, and newspapers, Pets in America is also packed with more than one hundred whimsical pieces of pet Americanaillustrations and photographs of all of mans best friends. Pets in America is fun social history for a popular audience and pet lovers everywhere.