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Author Tague, Ingrid H., 1968- author.

Title Animal companions : pets and social change in eighteenth-century Britain / Ingrid H. Tague
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) : illustrations
Series Animalibus
Animalibus.
Contents The material conditions of pet keeping -- Domesticating the exotic -- Fashioning the pet -- A privilege or a right? -- Pets and their people
Summary "Explores how thinking about pets in eighteenth-century Britain reflected and influenced the great social and cultural debates of the day, including struggles over gender, race, class, and national identity"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pets -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Human-animal relationships -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Pet owners -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Human-animal relationships
Pet owners
Pets -- Social aspects
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271067445
0271067446
9780241234662
0241234662