L'histoire animale prend son envol

In the Anthropocene era, while the expansion of Homo Sapiens has done away with countless species, historians are questioning our relationship with animals over time. The line separating man from the animal begins to appear more and more as an illusion that no scientific study can endorse, even though, in the West at least, we continue to differentiate men from animals by the spirit. Getting to know the history of the men/animals network already means recognizing a common trajectory and an interdependence among living species. But can we speak today of animal history? [Publishers' text].