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Author : David William Mitchell
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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book A Popular Guide to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London written by David William Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zoological Society of London. Library
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Total Pages : 868 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Takashi Ito
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0861933214
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)
Download or read book London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859 written by Takashi Ito and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life At the dawn of the Victorian era, London Zoo became one of the metropolis's premier attractions. The crowds drawn to its bear pit included urban promenaders, gentlemen menagerists, Indian shipbuilders and Persian princes - CharlesDarwin himself. This book shows that the impact of the zoo's extensive collection of animals can only be understood in the context of a wide range of contemporary approaches to nature, and that it was not merely as a manifestation of British imperial culture. The author demonstrates how the early history of the zoo illuminates three important aspects of the history of nineteenth-century Britain: the politics of culture and leisure in a new public domain which included museums and art galleries; the professionalisation and popularisation of science in a consumer society; and the meanings of the animal world for a growing urban population. Weaving these threads altogether, hepresents a flexible frame of analysis to explain how the zoo was established, how it pursued its policies of animal collection, and how it responded to changing social conditions. Dr Takashi Ito is Associate Professor in Modern British History, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Author : John Parker Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385430143
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by John Parker Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
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Total Pages : 588 pages
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Author : William Gifford
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Total Pages : 604 pages
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Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by William Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 908 pages
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Author : Harriet Ritvo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266730
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Animal Estate written by Harriet Ritvo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell
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Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book Centenary History of the Zoological Society of London written by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather A. Lapham
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 168340145X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Bears written by Heather A. Lapham and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years. These essays draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. Contributors explore the ways bears have been treated as something akin to another kind of human—in the words of anthropologist Irving Hallowell, “other than human persons”—in Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquois, Meskwaki, Creek, and many other Native cultures. Case studies focus on bear imagery in Native art and artifacts; the religious and economic significance of bears and bear products such as meat, fat, oil, and pelts; bears in Native worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies; and the use of bears as commodities in transatlantic trade. The case studies in Bears demonstrate that bears were not only a source of food, but were also religious, economic, and political icons within Indigenous cultures. This volume convincingly portrays the black bear as one of the most socially significant species in Native eastern North America. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Author : Sarah Amato
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442648740
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Beastly Possessions written by Sarah Amato and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures as well as their representations became commodities within Victorian Britain's flourishing consumer culture. As a pet, an animal could be a companion, a living parlour decoration, and proof of a household's social and moral status. In the zoo, it could become a public pet, an object of curiosity, a symbol of empire, or even a consumer mascot. Either kind of animal might be painted, photographed, or stuffed as a taxidermic specimen. Using evidence ranging from pet-keeping manuals and scientific treatises to novels, guidebooks, and ephemera, this fascinating, well-illustrated study opens a window into an underexplored aspect of life in Victorian Britain.
Author : Simons, John
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 174332586X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Obaysch written by Simons, John and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehistoric times. Captured near an island in the White Nile, Obaysch was donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds and deerhounds. His arrival in London was greeted with a wave of ‘hippomania’, doubling the number of visitors to the Zoological Gardens almost overnight. Delving into the circumstances of Obaysch’s capture and exhibition, John Simons investigates the phenomenon of ‘star’ animals in Victorian Britain against the backdrop of an expanding British Empire. He shows how the entangled aims of scientific exploration, commercial ambition, and imperial expansion shaped the treatment of exotic animals throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Along the way, he uncovers the strange and moving stories of Obaysch and the other hippos who joined him in Europe as the trade in zoo animals grew.
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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Freeman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004186727
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Paper Tiger written by Carol Freeman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of animals generate perceptions that have a profound effect on attitudes toward species. Can representations contribute to their extinction? Paper Tiger considers the role of illustrations in the demise of the thylacine or Tasmanian ‘tiger’. It critiques 80 engravings, lithographs, drawings and photographs published between 1808 and 1936, paying attention to the messages they convey, the politics of representation, and the impact on the lives of animals. This approach challenges conventional histories, offers new understandings of human-animal interactions, and presents a chilling story of just how misleading and powerful visual representation can be. It demonstrates how pictures, together with words, can have a vital influence on species’ survival. " ... this book is a remarkable achievement. Freeman writes thoughtfully, carefully and with force, and the book is a very good read."’ (Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020441
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture written by Bennett Zon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.
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Total Pages : 592 pages
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Download or read book Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliakim Littell
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Total Pages : 844 pages
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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
