Rebecca J H Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 455448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca J H Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS R J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chimpanzee Child: The Affective Mobility of Meshie Mungkut in 1930s America
In 1931, American Museum of Natural History curator Henry Cushier Raven returned from a collecting trip to West Africa with a young chimpanzee named Meshie. He raised her alongside his human children, filming scenes of supposed interspecies domestic harmony for public consumption. As Meshie matured, the conditions of captivity underlying her presence in the Raven household became painfully apparent. Meshie was banished to Brookfield Zoo in Chicag…
Kirsten A. Greer. Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
In Red Coats and Wild Birds, Kirsten Greer examines the motivations, practices, and consequences—for science, for empire, for masculinity—of nineteenth-century officer-ornithologists in the British army. Tracing the migratory paths of bird-watching lieutenants, ordnance officers, and military surgeons from their training grounds in the United Kingdom, to imperial way-stations in the Mediterranean (Malta and Gibraltar), to further-flung corners of…
Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000
The Shape of Meat: Preserving Animal Flesh in Victorian Britain
In the mid-nineteenth century, animal flesh was subject to a range of treatments in an effort to preserve meat grown on the fringes of the British Empire (in Australia and New Zealand, South and North America) for consumption in urban centers in Britain. Focusing on the publications of the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Commerce and Manufacture, and allied sources such as the Lancet, this article demonstrates that the more a prese…
The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, c. 1800-1900
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces h…
From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible
During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent with efforts to improve and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work …
A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in Our Culture and Everyday Life
The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, c. 1800-1900
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces h…
From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible
During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent with efforts to improve and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work …
The Shape of Meat: Preserving Animal Flesh in Victorian Britain
In the mid-nineteenth century, animal flesh was subject to a range of treatments in an effort to preserve meat grown on the fringes of the British Empire (in Australia and New Zealand, South and North America) for consumption in urban centers in Britain. Focusing on the publications of the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Commerce and Manufacture, and allied sources such as the Lancet, this article demonstrates that the more a prese…
A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in Our Culture and Everyday Life
From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible
During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent with efforts to improve and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work …
The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, c. 1800-1900
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces h…
The Shape of Meat: Preserving Animal Flesh in Victorian Britain
In the mid-nineteenth century, animal flesh was subject to a range of treatments in an effort to preserve meat grown on the fringes of the British Empire (in Australia and New Zealand, South and North America) for consumption in urban centers in Britain. Focusing on the publications of the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Commerce and Manufacture, and allied sources such as the Lancet, this article demonstrates that the more a prese…
Kirsten A. Greer. Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
In Red Coats and Wild Birds, Kirsten Greer examines the motivations, practices, and consequences—for science, for empire, for masculinity—of nineteenth-century officer-ornithologists in the British army. Tracing the migratory paths of bird-watching lieutenants, ordnance officers, and military surgeons from their training grounds in the United Kingdom, to imperial way-stations in the Mediterranean (Malta and Gibraltar), to further-flung corners of…
Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000
Chimpanzee Child: The Affective Mobility of Meshie Mungkut in 1930s America
In 1931, American Museum of Natural History curator Henry Cushier Raven returned from a collecting trip to West Africa with a young chimpanzee named Meshie. He raised her alongside his human children, filming scenes of supposed interspecies domestic harmony for public consumption. As Meshie matured, the conditions of captivity underlying her presence in the Raven household became painfully apparent. Meshie was banished to Brookfield Zoo in Chicag…
History (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)