Animals, History, Culture – serie
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Discovering the Okapi
Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma
Av Simon Pooley
Häftad, 2025
463 kr
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The captivating history of the okapi and its symbolic role in science, culture, and conservation.In Discovering the Okapi, Simon Pooley offers a fascinating portrait of the okapi—an elusive short-necked giraffid with zebra stripes, surviving in the rainforests of central Africa's Congo basin—and …
Looking for a Few Good Males
Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology
Häftad, 2011
463 kr
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Why do female animals select certain mates, and how do scientists determine the answer? In considering these questions, Erika Lorraine Milam explores the fascinating patterns of experiment and interpretation that emerged as twentieth-century researchers studied sexual selection and female choice. …
Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots
Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Inbunden, 2002
721 kr
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In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Menagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor-in all, forty-two live animals. In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise Robbins explains that exotic …
Bred for Perfection
Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800
Inbunden, 2004
609 kr
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How did animal breeding emerge as a movement? Who took part and for what reasons? How do the pedigree and market systems work? What light might the movement shed on the assumptions behind human eugenics? In Bred for Perfection, Margaret Derry provides the most comprehensive and accessible book yet …
Noble Brutes
How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture
Av Donna Landry
Inbunden, 2009
762 kr
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"His lordship's Arabian," a phrase often heard in eighteenth-century England, described a new kind of horse imported into the British Isles from the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States of North Africa. Noble Brutes traces how the introduction of these Eastern blood horses transformed early modern …
Horse in the City
Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2011
477 kr
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The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. …
Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers
Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920
Av Jessica Wang
Inbunden, 2019
686 kr
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How rabid dogs, the struggles to contain them, and their power over the public imagination intersected with New York City's rise to urban preeminence.Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the …
Spark from the Deep
How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
Inbunden, 2013
456 kr
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Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges. William J. Turkel asks …
Invention of the Modern Dog
Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain
Av Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
510 kr
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The story of the thoroughly Victorian origins of dog breeds.For centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian times that breeders started to produce discrete, differentiated, standardized breeds. In The Invention of …
Elephant Trails
A History of Animals and Cultures
Inbunden, 2022
510 kr
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Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought?From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, …
Invention of the Modern Dog
Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain
Av Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
286 kr
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The story of the thoroughly Victorian origins of dog breeds.For centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian times that breeders started to produce discrete, differentiated, standardized breeds. In The Invention of …
Making Machines of Animals
The International Livestock Exposition
Inbunden, 2023
700 kr
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How the Chicago International Livestock Exposition leveraged the eugenics movement to transform animals into machines and industrialize American agriculture.In 1900, the Chicago International Livestock Exposition became the epicenter of agricultural reform that focused on reinventing animals' …
Segregated Species
Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948
Inbunden, 2024
854 kr
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A timely history of the connections between science, segregation, and species in twentieth-century South Africa.Winner of the First Book Prize by the Royal Historical SocietyThroughout the twentieth century, rural South Africa was dominated by systems of racial segregation and apartheid that …
Savages and Beasts
The Birth of the Modern Zoo
Häftad, 2025
475 kr
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Now completely revised! A history of the modern zoo.In this revised edition of Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck, the most successful dealer in exotic animals in the nineteenth century. Building from his …
Citizen Beast
The Place of Animals in the Roman Empire
Häftad, 2026
828 kr
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Animals, power, and belonging in the Roman Empire.Animals were everywhere in the Roman world: in labor, ritual, entertainment, warfare, and luxury. In Citizen Beast, Martin Devecka argues that they were not merely background figures but central participants in the formation of empire. He examines …
Civilized Creatures
Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900
Inbunden, 2005
697 kr
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In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their …
Horse in the City
Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2007
564 kr
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The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. …
Horse People
Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington and Newmarket
Inbunden, 2008
564 kr
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The world of Thoroughbred racing is glamorous, secretive, dangerous, and seductive-the sport of kings and the poor man's obsession. While the spectacle of racing stirs the imagination, it belies the ruthless business that lies beneath. This engaging original study demystifies this complex world by …
Savages and Beasts
The Birth of the Modern Zoo
Häftad, 2008
295 kr
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To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, …
Wired Wilderness
Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife
Inbunden, 2011
567 kr
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American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. Wired Wilderness is the first book-length study of the origin, evolution, use, and impact of …
Entertaining Elephants
Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus
Av Susan Nance
Inbunden, 2013
584 kr
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Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In "Entertaining Elephants" Susan Nance examines elephant behavior - drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications - to offer a study of elephants …
