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

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Animal Rights History - Works Consulted

Works Consulted

Mark Berkoff, ed, Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998).

Edward G Fairholme and Wellesly Pain. A Century of Work for the Animals: The History of the R.S.P.C.A., 1824-1924 (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1924).

Aaron Garrett, ed, Animal Rights and Souls in the Eighteenth Century (England: Thoemmes Press, 2000). [Six volume set of facsimile reprints of 18th literature.]

Emily Stewart Leavitt, "The Evolution of Anti-Cruelty Laws in the United States." Chap. 1 in Animals and Their Legal Rights: A Survey of American Laws from 1641 to 1968 (New York: Animal Welfare Institute, 1968).

Richard D. Ryder, Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism, ([First Published] Oxford & Cambridge: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1989; [Revised & Updated Edition] Oxford, 2000). Page references are to the Revised & Updated Edition.

Richard D. Ryder, "The Struggle Against Speciesism," Chap 1 in Animals' Rights—A Symposium, Edited by D. Paterson and Richard D. Ryder (London: Centaur Press Ltd, 1979).

Henry Salt, Animals' Rights... with a Bibliographical Appendix, (1892; New York & London: Macmillan & Co, 1894).

Peter Singer, "Man's Dominion...A Short History of Specieism," Chap 5 in Animal Liberation, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1975).

E.S. Turner, All Heaven in a Rage (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965).

 



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