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Title Animal cities : beastly urban histories / edited by Peter Atkins
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 279 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1 Introduction; 2 Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London; 3 The 'Charmed Circle'; 4 The Urban Blood and Guts Economy; 5 This Nefarious Traffic: Livestock and Public Health in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh; 6 Undesirable Nature: Animals, Resources and Urban Nuisance in Nineteenth-Century Paris; 7 Locating the Transformation of Sensibilities in Nineteenth-Century London; 8 Fowls and the Contested Productive Spaces of Australian Suburbia, 1890-1990
9 Between the Muzzle and the Leash: Dog-walking, Discipline, and the Modern City
Summary This book presents a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives that may be adopted in the study of animals in the urban context. It covers areas such as, working and productive animals in the nineteenth century, animal spectacles in the nineteenth century, contested animal spaces in the city and the problem of the public companion animal and its role in changing attitudes to public space. This book will be of interest to historical geographers, urban, cultural, social and economic historians and historians of policy and planning
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-275) and index
Subject Urban animals -- History
Urban ecology (Biology)
Urban ecology (Sociology)
urban environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban animals
Urban ecology (Biology)
Staden.
Djur.
Djur och människor.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Atkins, P. J. (Peter J.)
LC no. 2011052209
ISBN 9781409446569
1409446565
1409446557
9781409446552