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CHICAGO CHICAGO CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL SPRING BOOKS INTERNATIONAL 2017 S P R I N G STREETCHICAGO ILLINOIS TH B O O K S UNIVERSITYOFCHICAGOPRESS EAST 2 0 1 7 Recently Published Spring 2017 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 43 Paperbacks 98 The Great Derangement Alice in Space Distributed Books 108 Climate Change and the Unthinkable The Sideways Victorian World of Amitav Ghosh Lewis Carroll ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32303-9 Gillian Beer Author Index 192 Cloth $22.00/£15.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04150-6 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32317-6 Cloth $35.00/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40479-0 Title Index 194 Subject Index 196 Ordering Inside Information back cover Looking for The The Craft of Research Outsider Fourth Edition Albert Camus and the Life of a Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Literary Classic Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald Alice Kaplan Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44015-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23973-6 Cloth £18.00 Paper $18.00/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44029-3 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23987-3 The Diversity Bargain A Very Queer Family And Other Dilemmas of Race, Indeed Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Universities Victorian Britain Natasha K. Warikoo Simon Goldhill ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40014-3 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39378-0 Cover design by Mary Shanahan $26.00/£18.00 Cloth $35.00/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40028-0 Catalog design by Brian Beerman and Mary Shanahan E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39381-0 HILDA KEAN The Great Cat and Dog Massacre The Real Story of World War II’s Unknown Tragedy he tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand Tcats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why would thousands of British citizens line up to voluntarily euthanize house- hold pets? In The Great Cat and Dog Massacre, Hilda Kean unearths the history, “This is a brilliant telling of an impor- piecing together the compelling story of the life—and death—of Brit- tant but neglected story of Britain’s ain’s wartime animal companions. She explains that fear of imminent ‘People’s War.’ Kean’s reconstruction Nazi bombing and the desire to do something to prepare for war led of the unnecessary slaughter of hundreds Britons to sew blackout curtains, dig up flower beds for vegetable of thousands of pet animals at the outbreak patches, send their children away to the countryside—and kill the fam- of war will live long in the reader’s ily pet, in theory sparing them the suffering of a bombing raid. Kean’s memory. But it is matched by her meticu- narrative is gripping, unfolding through stories of shared experiences lous recovery of the changing aspect of of bombing, food restrictions, sheltering, and mutual support. Soon animal-human relations throughout the pets became key to the war effort, providing emotional assistance remaining six years of conflict.” —Jerry White, and helping people to survive—a contribution for which the animals author of London in the gained government recognition. Twentieth Century: A City and Its People Drawing extensively on new research from animal charities, state Animal Lives archives, diaries, and family stories, Kean does more than tell a virtu- ally forgotten story. She complicates our understanding of World War M AY 248 p., 30 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31832-5 II as a “good war” fought by a nation of “good” people. Accessibly writ- Cloth $35.00s/£19.95 ten and generously illustrated, Kean’s account of this forgotten aspect E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31846-2 EUROPEAN HISTORY of British history moves animals to center stage—forcing us to rethink our assumptions about ourselves and the animals with whom we share our homes. Hilda Kean is visiting professor at the University of Greenwich and an honor- ary senior research associate at University College London. Her many books include Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 and London Stories: Personal Lives, Public Histories. general interest 1 LEE ALAN DUGAtkIN and LYUDMILA Trut How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution ucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and T friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonish- ing experiment in breeding ever undertaken—imagine compressing thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists “Dugatkin and Trut have collaborated to Dmitry Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting produce a well-written and engaging with a few dozen silver foxes from Siberian fox farms and attempting account of one the most influential bio- to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to logical studies ever: the fox farm experi- witness the process of domestication. This is the extraordinary, untold ment. Over sixty years ago, a Russian story of this remarkable undertaking. geneticist dared to start an experiment Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a to see if foxes could be domesticated and span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut’s what variables contributed to the changes fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with floppy domestication brought. The courage ears, piebald spots, and curly tails. Along with these physical changes involved in starting such an experiment came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. The foxes were bred using in the USSR of the 1950s was remark- selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became able; the dedication and curiosity that increasingly interested in human companionship. Trut has been there have kept it going ever since have led to the whole time, and has been the lead scientist on this work since Bely- stunning new insights on the mechanisms aev’s death in 1985, and with Lee Dugatkin, biologist and science writer, of domestication. Every biologist should she tells the story of the adventure, science, politics, and love behind read this book!” it all. In How to Tame a Fox, Dugatkin and Trut take us inside this path- —Pat Shipman, breaking experiment in the midst of the brutal winters of Siberia to author of The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals reveal how scientific history is made and continues to be made today. to Extinction How to Tame a Fox offers an incredible tale of scientists at work, while also celebrating the deep attachments that have brought humans may 240 p., 17 color plates 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44418-5 and animals together throughout time. Cloth $26.00/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44421-5 Lee Alan Dugatkin teaches in the Department of Biology at the University SCIENCE of Louisville. His books include The Altruism Equation and Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Lyudmila Trut is professor of evolutionary genetics at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, in Novosibirsk, Siberia. She has been the lead researcher on the 2 general interest silver fox domestication experiment since 1959. BArbARA J. KING Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat n recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and Itreat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just brains, but complicated inner and social lives, and that we need to act accordingly. Yet that realization hasn’t yet made its presence felt to any great “ In Personalities on the Plate, Barbara J. degree in our most intimate relationship with animals: at the dinner King uses the latest discoveries about table. Sure, there are vegetarians and vegans all over, but at the same mental capacities and social lives of time, meat consumption is up, and meat remains a central part of the creatures from insects and chickens to culinary and dining experience for the majority of people in the devel- chimpanzees and dogs to make the moral oped world. case against meat. Combining first-rate With Personalities on the Plate, Barbara J. King asks us to think science with personal experience, this hard about our meat eating—though this isn’t a polemic intended to book offers a fascinating window into the convert readers to veganism. What she is interested in is why we’ve not minds of animals that will make readers drawn food animals into our concern, and, as part of that, just what we think deeply about what they are going to do know about the minds and lives of chickens, cows, octopuses, fish, eat for dinner tonight.” —Hal Herzog, and more. Rooted in the latest science, and built on a mix of firsthand author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, experience (including entomophagy, which, yes, is what you think it Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals is) and close engagement with the work of scientists, farmers, vets, and chefs, Personalities on the Plate is an unforgettable journey through the M AY 224 p., 7 halftones 6 x 9 world of animals we eat.