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City of Beasts Thomas Almeroth-Williams

City of Beasts von Thomas Almeroth-Williams

City of Beasts Thomas Almeroth-Williams

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Zusammenfassung

This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city's role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge contribution that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs made to the world's first modern metropolis, as well as the serious challenges the animals posed.

City of Beasts Zusammenfassung

City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London Thomas Almeroth-Williams

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 revolutions, as well as key aspects of the city's culture, social relations and physical development. It will be stimulating reading for students and professional scholars of urban, social, economic, agricultural, industrial, architectural and environmental history.

City of Beasts Bewertungen

'Thomas Almeroth-Williams adds vibrant colour to the landscape of Georgian London through his cast of horses, jackasses, livestock and watchdogs large and small. Beautifully written, attentive and thoughtful, City of beasts is alive not only with the sights, sounds, smells of the eighteenth century metropolis, but also with its animal voices.'
Lucy Inglis, author of Milk of Paradise

'Animals made eighteenth-century London work. From guard dogs to drays, they provided the 'horse power' that made society turn. Almeroth-Williams interrogates a lost world of human-animal relations to expose something quite new. This book will change how you see the pre-industrial world and every mutt you meet on the street.'
Tim Hitchcock, Co-Director of The Old Bailey Online

'His close attention to the details of human and animal behaviours, his focus on the dung-bespattered reality of human-animal interactions, forces the reader to acknowledge animals ... as agents of historical change in their own right.'
TLS

'City of Beasts is an unusual, provocative urban history, which makes exciting methodological contributions and challenging arguments relevant to a range of subjects and disciplines.'
Urban History Journal

'It is very well written and includes a wealth of stories that bring dung-spattered Georgian London to life. City of Beasts offers a new and compelling way to look at both urban and animal history in ways that intersect closely with environmental history.'
Environmental History journal

'City of Beasts is written in an engaging style that should allow it to appeal both to specialists and to more general readers. [...] It is an enjoyable and accessible book, a useful and welcome contribution to the study of urban and social history, and required reading for scholars of early modern and modern animal studies.'
Journal of British Studies

'An unprecedented and evocative picture of Georgian London'
Ricerche di Storia Politica

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Über Thomas Almeroth-Williams

Thomas Almeroth-Williams is Research Associate in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Mill horse
2 Draught horse
3 Animal husbandry
4 Meat on the hoof
5 Consuming horses
6 Horsing around
7 Watchdogs
Conclusion
Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR009912161
9781526126351
1526126354
City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London Thomas Almeroth-Williams
Thomas Almeroth-Williams
Manchester University Press
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Manchester University Press
20190531
328
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