Greyhound Nation

Edmund Russell is Professor of History at Boston University, where he focuses his research on environmental history, the history of technology, US history, and biology. He is the author of Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth (Cambridge, 2011) and co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Environment and History series.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Patrician coevolution (1200–1831); 3. Human evolution in a transitional era (1776–1831); 4. Greyhound evolution and coevolution in a transitional era (1776–1831); 5. Modernizing human evolution (1831–1900); 6. Modern coevolution for coursing (1831–1900); 7. Modern coevolution for shows (1860–1900); 8. Epilogue.

'Greyhound Nation offers a provocative, erudite, and persuasive argument about the coevolution of people and dogs. Focusing on greyhounds in England, this fascinating book challenges us to re-think the boundaries between humans and other species - and to re-think our very definition of history.' Nancy Langston, Michigan Technological University