| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States. By Diane L. Beers. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xvi, 312 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8040-1086-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8040-1087-0.)
Diane L. Beers has written a history of the American animal protection movement from its origins in 1866 through 1975. Though the movement has been the subject of a smattering of popular and partisan histories, few historians of the United States have given the subject the attention it deserves. This book aims both to fill in the history and to correct errors in earlier accounts. The animal advocacy agenda, Beers argues, has been broader, more diverse, more influential, and more sustained than its previous chroniclers have acknowledged.	1
For the Prevention of Cruelty tells its story through a series of largely chronological chapters. From the end of the Civil War through the end of World War II, most animal advocacy was conducted through the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and their confederate body, the American Humane Association (AHA). The diverse interests of those organizations included mitigating conditions for the nation's laboring animals, restricting the use of feathers and fur in fashion, regulating the interstate transportation of livestock, and establishing the painless slaughter of food animals. Activists also undertook positive initiatives by providing ambulances and clinics for animals, humane education of children, and the nation's first animal shelters.	. . .

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