Author: Mary Trimmer
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A Natural History of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Reptiles, and Insects
Author: Mary Trimmer
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Reptiles, and Insects in the Known World
Author: J. Macloc
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
Author: Entomological Society of Washington
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
List of members in v. 1-3, 5, 14.
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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List of members in v. 1-3, 5, 14.
The Tamed and the Untamed
Author: Anne Wales Abbot
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The history of Nantucket [ed. by W. Coffin].
Author: Obed Macy
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Animal Estate
Author: Harriet Ritvo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.
A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books
Author: Pickering & Chatto
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799
Author: Arthur A. Lisney
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Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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A bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.
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Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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A bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.
The Edinburgh Annual Register
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Encyclopaedia Americana
Author: Francis Lieber
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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