Humanity Against Cruelty to Animals in Historical Literature, Timeline of Animal Rights History

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These pages are part of an ongoing effort to provide free online access to historical literature on animal rights, animal welfare and the humane movement against cruelty to animals. As this literature is made available as eBooks, our online library of free eBooks, animal rights-humane history timeline and historical literature archive will include not only the more noted events and authors, but lesser known advocates as well.

References to historical literature use Chicago Manual of Style as guidelines. Consistent conventions present the diversity of literature in the most effective manner. The notes are presented in chronological order (by the date the work was originally written/published), as single author selected bibliographies. The term bibliography is used to denote a list of works, not the CMS style guideline used.

Quotes briefly introduce activists, advocates & authors; the history of animal rights, welfare & protection; and the literature of the humane movement against cruelty to animals.

Free Online Library - Complete Texts · Accessible Online · Free of Charge document the authenticity of quotations and provide more in-depth insight into an author's ideologies and additional historical perspective on the continuing struggle for the rights, welfare and protection of animals.

Book, article and chapter titles link to Animal Rights History's Online Library. Each electronic book or "eBook" in our collection retains the original text, grammar, spelling, punctuation and pagination of the source document. Changes other than those noted within the transcriber's notes are included in eBook notes. In order to provide the reader with the best representation of the author's original intent, meaning and style, the electronic version of the literature available on this site has been most often transcribed from the earliest or most respected editions or translations of the text. Later editions with updated spelling, grammar and word usage can often be found at libraries, bookstores and online.

Publishing information includes the year and language (if other than English) of the original work; the year of the first English edition (if different from the edition cited), and the location and year of the edition cited. For older works, transcribed from collected editions (if not the first publication of the individual work), I have referenced the information in brackets pertaining to the individual work following it's title. Information peculiar to the collected edition is referenced in parenthesis following the title. Additional information has been included to clarify the publishing history including References to ebooks not on this site include the date of the print edition the work was transcribed from (when ascertainable) and the copyright information from the online site (if available).

eBook Notes

Each electronic book or "ebook" retains the original text, grammar, spelling, punctuation and pagination of the source document. With older literature, word usage and spelling often differ from current standards, between editions of a book, and often within the text itself. As well, it was not uncommon for punctuation, especially exclamation points ! to be found within sentences. Unclosed quotations marks were also common as well as words hyphenated between pages. Few modifications have been made to the text, and only when necessary to ensure readability or due to the limitations of html. The actual line width has not been maintained, and therefore hyphenated words have been combined but not noted. Words hyphenated between pages have been combined for readability and searching purposes. Quotation marks beginning every line of a multi-line quote have not been retained unless identifying lines of poetry. Chapter and page titles are bold and centered to provide assistance for those using screen readers and other adaptive technology. Any other changes are noted separately within the transcriber's notes of the individual eBook. The eBooks have been proofread several times, unfortunately, errors still occur. If you do find any, please Contact-Us@AnimalRightsHistory.Org and we will correct the error promptly.

Animal Rights History

These pages are part of an ongoing effort to provide free online access to historical literature on animal rights, animal welfare and the humane movement against animal cruelty.

Quotes briefly introduce animal rights activists, animal welfare advocates and authors; the history of animal rights, animal welfare and animal protection; and the literature of the humane movement against cruelty to animals.

Links to primary source historical literature document the authenticity of quotations while providing more in-depth insight into the ideologies of the humane movement against cruelty to animals and additional historical perspective on the continuing struggle for animal rights, animal welfare and the protection of animals.