- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )
Other sellers (Paperback)
-
All (15) from $7.50
-
New (8) from $23.00
-
Used (7) from $7.50
More About This Textbook
Editorial Reviews
New York Review of Books
The brilliance of Ritvo's book, my favorite for 1987...[lies] in the particular examples that she has chosen to illustrate the institutional bonds of humans with other animals...She tells so many wonderful stories.
— Stephen Jay Gould
New York Times Book Review
This is both an amusing and a valuable book...Harriet Ritvo is concerned primarily with the discussion, use, display of animals as part of a rhetoric of human and class ascendancy. But the material presented here with impressive lucidity and control should interest virtually any reader. And the book is intriguingly and lavishly illustrated, mostly with engravings and woodcuts from sources ranging from Punch to natural histories, stockbreeders' publications, newspapers and paintings...An important book for anyone with an interest in the sociology of animals, and in the more general social history that emerges from its beautifully presented wealth of detail.
— Vicki Hearne
Animals
An unusual social history of Victorian England...Deftly written and generously illustrated, The Animal Estate details the spectrum of Victorian animal concerns: the antivivisection movement, the popularity of zoology, the hunt, the rabies panic (not unlike today's pit bull hysteria), and more. The reader will come out with a fuller understanding of the Victorian people and the development of our bonds with animals.
Animals
An unusual social history of Victorian England...Deftly written and generously illustrated, The Animal Estate details the spectrum of Victorian animal concerns: the antivivisection movement, the popularity of zoology, the hunt, the rabies panic (not unlike today's pit bull hysteria), and more. The reader will come out with a fuller understanding of the Victorian people and the development of our bonds with animals.New York Times Book Review
This is both an amusing and a valuable book...Harriet Ritvo is concerned primarily with the discussion, use, display of animals as part of a rhetoric of human and class ascendancy. But the material presented here with impressive lucidity and control should interest virtually any reader. And the book is intriguingly and lavishly illustrated, mostly with engravings and woodcuts from sources ranging from Punch to natural histories, stockbreeders' publications, newspapers and paintings...An important book for anyone with an interest in the sociology of animals, and in the more general social history that emerges from its beautifully presented wealth of detail.— Vicki Hearne
New York Review of Books
The brilliance of Ritvo's book, my favorite for 1987...[lies] in the particular examples that she has chosen to illustrate the institutional bonds of humans with other animals...She tells so many wonderful stories.— Stephen Jay Gould
Product Details
Related Subjects
Meet the Author
Harriet Ritvo is Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Nature of the Beast
Part I. Prestige and Pedigree
1. Barons of Beef
2. Prize Pets
Part II. Dangerous Classes
3. A Measure of Compassion
4. Cave Canem
Part III. Animals and Empire
5. Exotic Captives
6. The Thrill of the Chase
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index