City of beasts
How animals shaped Georgian London
This book explores the role of animals - horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs - in shaping Georgian London. Moving away from the philosophical, fictional and humanitarian sources used by previous animal studies, it focuses on evidence of tangible, dung-bespattered interactions between real people and animals, drawn from legal, parish, commercial, newspaper and private records.This approach opens up new perspectives on unfamiliar or misunderstood metropolitan spaces, activities, social types, relationships and cultural developments. Ultimately, the book challenges traditional assumptions about the industrial, agricultural and consumer revoluti…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-2637-5
- EAN: 9781526126375
- Produktnummer: 32341382
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 25'580 KB
- Abbildungen: 29 black & white illustrations, 5 maps
Über den Autor
Thomas Almeroth-Williams is Research Associate in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
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