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A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire Kathleen Kete

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire By Kathleen Kete

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire by Kathleen Kete

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A thematic overview of how animals were seen and used in the period from 1800 to 1920, covering symbolism, hunting, domestication, sports and entertainment, science, philosophy, and art.

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire Summary

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire by Kathleen Kete

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialized and modernized. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart.

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary symbolism, hunting, domestication, sports and entertainment, science, philosophy, and art.

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire Reviews

The Cultural History of Animals presents an innovative and compelling introduction to current scholarship about the historical relationships between people and other animals. * Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, M.I.T. *
An innovative and ambitious project that synthesizes knowledge of animals as living creatures and their symbolic representations... an invaluable contribution to our understanding... A combination of surprise and entertainment with serious research gives these volumes a place in the best tradition of accessible science. * Bernd Huppauf, New York University for H-Soz-u-Kult *
High quality editing, clear writing, and abundant visual illustrations ... These volumes will be basic to future scholarship dealing with animals and society. Essential. * Choice *

About Kathleen Kete

Kathleen Kete is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Hartford and author of The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Animals and Human Empire
Kathleen Kete, Trinity College, Hartford

1. The Moment of Greyfriars Bobby: The Changing Cultural Position of Animals in Europe
Hilda Kean, University of Oxford

2. Hunting Empires in Britain and the United States
Daniel Herman, Central Washington University

3. Domestication of Empire: Human-Animal Relations at the Intersection of Civilisation and Acclimatisation in the Nineteenth Century
Dorothee Brantz, SUNY Buffalo

4. How the Caged Bird Sings: Entertainment and the Exhibition of Animals
Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

5. From Birds of Paradise to Drosophila: The Changing Roles of Scientific Specimens in Europe and America to 1920
Narisara Murray, Independent Scholar, Cambodia

6. Philosophy and Animals in the Age of Empire
Mark Rowlands, University of Hertfordshire

7. Narrative Dominion or The Animals Write Back? Animal Genres in Literature and the Arts
Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR008418116
9781847888211
1847888216
A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire by Kathleen Kete
Kathleen Kete
The Cultural Histories Series
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2011-02-01
272
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