The City Is More Than Human – An Animal History of Seattle Brown Sutter Hardback

The City Is More Than HumanAn Animal History of Seattle\nAuthor(s): Frederick L. Brown, Paul S. Sutter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295999340, 978-0295999340\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)\n\nWinner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History Association\n\nSeattle would not exist without animals. Animals have played a vital role in shaping the city from its founding amid existing indigenous towns in the mid-nineteenth century to the livestock-friendly town of the late nineteenth century to the pet-friendly, livestock-averse modern city. \n\nWhen newcomers first arrived in the 1850s, they hastened to assemble the familiar cohort of cattle, horses, pigs, chickens, and other animals that defined European agriculture. This, in turn, contributed to the dispossession of the Native residents.