The History of the World in Fifty Dogs

Preface

Dog Domestication: A Short Introduction to the Notorious D.O.G.

Bark Like an Egyptian: Abuwtiyuw, History's First Recorded Dog with a Name

The Xoloitzcuintli: She Is Beauty, She Is Grace, She Will Lead You to the Underworld in Spite of Her Weird Face

Panhu Makes Fetch Happen: Chinese Mythology's Original Ancestor

Argos, the Loyal Dog of the Odyssey: Western Literature's First Dead Dog

All Dogs Go to Heaven: King Yudhisthira and the Dog of the Mahabharata

Peritas the Great: The Somewhat Mythical Dog of Alexander the Great

Imperial China's Adorable Mace: The Pekingese and Other Lion Dogs of China

The Dog King of Norway Has No Idea What He's Doing: Scandinavia's Mythical History of Ruff Regents

St. Roch, the Patron Saint of Dogs: Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Treats

Donchadh, Robert the Bruce's Loyal Hound: Unintentionally Becomes Dog the Bounty Hunter

Conquistadogs! In Which Dogs Are Forced to Be Complicit in Colonialism

Tinker Tailor Soldier Pug: How One Dog Stopped a Royal Assassination

Urian the Greyhound: One Dog Chomps the Catholic Church

Game of Bones: The Dogs of the English Civil War

The Gravity of the Situation: In Which Isaac Newton's Dog Almost Ruins Everything

The Dog Shogun: Protecting the Strays of Japan

I Want Brandy! Barry and the Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard Pass

"If You Want a Friend in Washington, Get a Dog": First Pups in the White House

Fortune the Pug: Napoleon Bonaparte Has a Bone to Pick with Dogs

Woofers Go West! Lewis, Clark, and Their Newfoundland, Seaman, Lead the Corps of Discovery

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Pet: Lord Byron's Dog Botswain, and Also, What Was the Romantic Movement?

The Brown Dog Affair: Or, JFC Let's Stop Experimenting on Animals

Greyfriars Bobby: And Other Loyal Dog Tails

Semper Fido: How "Fido" Became Synonymous with "Dog"

Adopt Don't Shop! Caroline Earle White Founds America's First Animal Shelters

"Hello? Yes, This Is Dog": How Alexander Graham Bell's Dog Helped Invent the Telephone

They See Me Rollin': Bud Nelson and the First Cross-Country Road Trip in the United States

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax . . . and Used It to Chop Up Treats for Her Boston Terriers

National Bark Ranger: John Muir and Stickeen, Partners in Adventure

The Pawscar Goes To . . . : Dogs in the Movies

My Bark Will Go On: Dogs on the Titanic

A Small History of Therapy Dogs: How Does That Make You Feel?

The Dogs of War, Part I: The Canine Combatants of World War I

Russia's Last Royal Dogs: Although the Tsar Did Not Survive, One Dogter May Be Still Alive

The War of the Stray Dog: Or, the Curious Incident of the Dog the War-time

Dire Wolves Against Diphtheria: Togo, Balto, and the Great Race of Mercy to Save Nome, Alaska

Her Majesty's Corgis: How These Furry Potatoes Became the Symbol of the British Crown

America's First Seeing-Eye Dog: The Walk That Changed History

Reservoir Dog: The Hoover Dam's Four-Legged Mascot

Hitler's Talking Dog Army: It Did Not Pan Out

You Call This Barkaeology?! Robot the Dog Discovers the Lascaux Cave Paintings

The Dogs of War, Part II: The Pupper Privates of World War II

Dogs! In! Spaaaaace! How Dogs Took Man to Space

Martha, My Dear! Beatlemania's First Dog

I Can Has Racial Equality? Nelson Mandela and His Dog, Gompo

The Canine Rescue Teams of 9/11: Each One Gooder Than the Last

Furgin Birth: How Snuppy Became the World's First Cloned Dog

Slum Dog Mountaineer: From Home-less Stray to the First Dog to Climb Mt. Everest

Dying Breeds: Extinct Dog Breeds in History

Selected Bibliography