The gospel of kindness: animal welfare and the making of modern America

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: "A righteous man regards the life of his beast": The Roots of the Gospel of

Kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Reform

Chapter Two: "A World of Kindness is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Chapter Three: From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien Other

Chapter Four: An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and Moral

Expansionism Overseas

Chapter Five: "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia

Chapter Six: "So Thoroughly Un-American": Making Historical Sense of the Bullfight

Conclusion

Notes

Index.