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Harriet Ritvo
Collected for the first time in a single volume, they reveal an important dimension of human history by looking to those other creatures that have surrounded us all along.
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Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir. This book examines the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between conservationists who…
Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. This title re-creates the battle for Thirlmere and the…
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Harriet Ritvo 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…
Capturing the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing, Ritvo depicts a complex of competing groups-naturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artists-deploying rival schemes to impose…
In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.
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Ian Jared Miller
It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. This title offers a study of Japan’s…
An exploration of the various ways animals and their relations to humans have been depicted throughout the ages.
