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The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England [Audiobook] download free by Harriet Ritvo

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England Audiobook download free by Harriet Ritvo
  • Listen audiobook: The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England
  • Author: Harriet Ritvo
  • Release date: 1989/1/16
  • Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Natural History
  • ISBN: 9780674037076
  • Rating: 7.33 of 10
  • Votes: 572
  • Review by: Cadence Coffin
  • Review rating: 9.49 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/19
  • Duration: 4H36M34S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-01
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, MP3, WAV, FLAC, TTA (compression ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARC)
  • Total pages original book: 368
  • Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 23M42S (6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations.Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions-for example, about Britain's imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society.Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human-animal interactions.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Natural History Books, Social & Cultural History, Animals & Society, Animal Husbandry, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, British & Irish History, European History
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 35.33 USD
  • Dimensions: 156x235x27.69mm
  • Weight: 562g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States

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