"Nothing short of pathbreaking. Brown organizes this potentially overwhelming topic into a highly influential study with remarkable grace and concision." -Thomas Andrews, author of Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies
"Deeply moving...Brown has taken a relatively new discipline, that of animal studies, and applied it in an altogether graceful and surprising way, blending elements of history, geography, environmental studies, and sociology into a fresh and sometimes startling interpretation of urban development." -Glenda Pearson, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"Brown's approach is innovative, thought provoking, and delightfully insightful." -Hal K. Rothman Book Award committee, Western History Association
"Brown has written a history that implores us to care about animals as well as humans and to interrogate when, where, how, and why we have and have not done so in the past." -Paul Sutter, author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
"Historian Frederick L. Brown has written a fascinating account of animals--particularly domesticated animals--in the creation of our city.... Brown makes a compelling case that animals have been central to shaping our physical, economic, and sociological landscapes.... For the Seattle history buff it's a must read; for the urbanist it broadens the sense of what the city is, who it's for, and how critters are partners in shaping urban life." -Knute Berger, Crosscut
"Seattle is a city of animals...All this and more is vividly chronicled in historian Frederick Brown's 'The City is More than Human: An Animal History of Seattle.'" -Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times
"Once you have read The City is More Than Human, you may feel that you have been talking with its subjects: beavers, cougars, cattle, cows, horses, dogs, cats, pigs, chickens and salmon." -Paul Dorpat, Seattle Now & Then
"Frederick Brown's wonderful history of Seattle brings the city's story into conversation with the growing field of animal studies, illustrating the ways in which nonhuman animals of many kinds have been at the center of Seattle's history - often in ways we might find surprising today. Learning about these animal lives can tell us not only how cattle, dogs, and salmon experienced this place, but also how talking about what it means to be an urban animal offers important insights into what it means to be human." -Coll Thrush, author of Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire and Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
"What is the place of animals in the American city? The answers, as Frederick Brown argues in this inventive book, say as much about being human as they do about the many creatures prowling our streets and sharing our homes. Corralling cows, killing cougars, loving dogs and eating salmon were more than asserting an illusory control over nature. Instead, Brown concludes, such interactions redefined which creatures, human and animal, were allowed to claim Seattle as their own. The City Is More Than Human is an ambitious and important retelling of America's urban past." -Matthew Klingle, author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
