Animal cities: beastly urban histories
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate ©2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-275) and index
1 Introduction; 2 Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London; 3 The 'Charmed Circle'; 4 The Urban Blood and Guts Economy; 5 This Nefarious Traffic: Livestock and Public Health in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh; 6 Undesirable Nature: Animals, Resources and Urban Nuisance in Nineteenth-Century Paris; 7 Locating the Transformation of Sensibilities in Nineteenth-Century London; 8 Fowls and the Contested Productive Spaces of Australian Suburbia, 1890-1990
9 Between the Muzzle and the Leash: Dog-walking, Discipline, and the Modern City
This book presents a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives that may be adopted in the study of animals in the urban context. It covers areas such as, working and productive animals in the nineteenth century, animal spectacles in the nineteenth century, contested animal spaces in the city and the problem of the public companion animal and its role in changing attitudes to public space. This book will be of interest to historical geographers, urban, cultural, social and economic historians and historians of policy and planning
Beschreibung:vi, 279 pages
ISBN:9781409446569
1409446565
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