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BUILDING A HUMANE EMPIRE - Janet M. Davis The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare & the Making of Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-01997-33156.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2017

Susan J. Pearson
Susan J. Pearson*
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Northwestern University
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 236 - 238
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2017 

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1 Anderson, Virginia DeJohn, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)Google Scholar.

2 Ritvo, Harriet, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989)Google Scholar.

3 Turner, James, Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)Google Scholar; Beers, Diane L., For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States (Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.