Author: C. M. van Stockum
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: C. M. van Stockum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Dogopolis
Author: Chris Pearson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679704X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized? Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679704X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized? Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.
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Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Collared
Author: Chris Pearson
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1800816421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Dogs are our constant companions: models of loyalty and unconditional love for millions around the world. But these beloved animals are much more than just our pets - and our shared history is far richer and more complex than you might assume. Here, historian and dog lover Chris Pearson reveals how the shifting fortunes of dogs hold a mirror to our changing society, from the evolution of breeding standards to the fight for animal rights. Wherever humans have gone, dogs have followed, changing size, appearance and even jobs along the way - from the forests of medieval Europe, where greyhounds chased down game for royalty, to the frontlines of twentieth-century conflicts, where dogs carried messages and hauled gun carriages. Despite vast social change, however, the power of the human-canine bond has never diminished. By turns charming, thought-provoking and surprising, Collared reveals the fascinating tale of how we made the modern dog.
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1800816421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Dogs are our constant companions: models of loyalty and unconditional love for millions around the world. But these beloved animals are much more than just our pets - and our shared history is far richer and more complex than you might assume. Here, historian and dog lover Chris Pearson reveals how the shifting fortunes of dogs hold a mirror to our changing society, from the evolution of breeding standards to the fight for animal rights. Wherever humans have gone, dogs have followed, changing size, appearance and even jobs along the way - from the forests of medieval Europe, where greyhounds chased down game for royalty, to the frontlines of twentieth-century conflicts, where dogs carried messages and hauled gun carriages. Despite vast social change, however, the power of the human-canine bond has never diminished. By turns charming, thought-provoking and surprising, Collared reveals the fascinating tale of how we made the modern dog.
The Beast in the Boudoir
Author: Kathleen Kete
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520326857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie. Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarians's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding—all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, was a way to imagine a better, more manageable version of the world—it relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to the isolation of individualism and lack of community in urban life. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and even the irascible, autonomous cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and affection. Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520326857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie. Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarians's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding—all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, was a way to imagine a better, more manageable version of the world—it relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to the isolation of individualism and lack of community in urban life. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and even the irascible, autonomous cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and affection. Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 295926990X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 295926990X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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LES CHIENS : UNE PASSION !
Author: Guillaume de Lavigne
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300805307
Category : Pets
Languages : fr
Pages : 330
Book Description
Si vous tenez ce livre en main, c'est que les chiens vous intéressent ; que vous en avez un ou que vous voulez en avoir un : un chiot, un chien adulte, un mâle, une femelle. Quel que soit le cas, vous voulez en savoir plus pour pouvoir garantir ou améliorer une cohabitation et une connivence harmonieuse qui durera 10 à 15 ans. C'est le but de ce livre : vous y aider. Pour ce faire nous aborderons ensemble le choix de la race, de l'éleveur, du chiot, les théories modernes et la pratique de l'éducation canine, comment comprendre et résoudre les problèmes, l'alimentation et l'hygiène. J'y ai inclus de nombreuses anecdotes et quelques pointes d'humour pour rendre le texte plus digeste. Cet ouvrage laisse transparaître un hymne à l'amour que je porte au chien. Qu'il soit pour vous une passerelle entre la théorie, l'apprentissage et la pratique et un aiguillon pour mieux-faire.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300805307
Category : Pets
Languages : fr
Pages : 330
Book Description
Si vous tenez ce livre en main, c'est que les chiens vous intéressent ; que vous en avez un ou que vous voulez en avoir un : un chiot, un chien adulte, un mâle, une femelle. Quel que soit le cas, vous voulez en savoir plus pour pouvoir garantir ou améliorer une cohabitation et une connivence harmonieuse qui durera 10 à 15 ans. C'est le but de ce livre : vous y aider. Pour ce faire nous aborderons ensemble le choix de la race, de l'éleveur, du chiot, les théories modernes et la pratique de l'éducation canine, comment comprendre et résoudre les problèmes, l'alimentation et l'hygiène. J'y ai inclus de nombreuses anecdotes et quelques pointes d'humour pour rendre le texte plus digeste. Cet ouvrage laisse transparaître un hymne à l'amour que je porte au chien. Qu'il soit pour vous une passerelle entre la théorie, l'apprentissage et la pratique et un aiguillon pour mieux-faire.
War Supplement
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Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A classified record of literature on military medicine and surgery.
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Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A classified record of literature on military medicine and surgery.
Museum Security
Author: Robert G. Tillotson
Publisher:
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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Le Chiffre de L'Abeille Tueuse
Author: Pierre Gabolde
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105855325
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 520
Book Description
Le mercredi 1er Octobre 1941, une puissante Vivastella amène le jeune Cazilhac au collège Saint-Vincent. Les Bons Pères y dispensent, sans concessions, une éducation partagée entre la prière, l'étude, le culte du Maréchal Pétain et des rutabagas. Mais cette vie sans surprises est bientôt troublée par des événements de plus en plus alarmants....
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105855325
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 520
Book Description
Le mercredi 1er Octobre 1941, une puissante Vivastella amène le jeune Cazilhac au collège Saint-Vincent. Les Bons Pères y dispensent, sans concessions, une éducation partagée entre la prière, l'étude, le culte du Maréchal Pétain et des rutabagas. Mais cette vie sans surprises est bientôt troublée par des événements de plus en plus alarmants....