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Noble cows and hybrid zebras : essays on animals and history / Harriet Ritvo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ritvo, Harriet, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-animal relationships--History.
- Human-animal relationships.
- History.
- Animal welfare--Public opinion--History.
- Animals and history.
- Animals (Philosophy)--History.
- Animals (Philosophy).
- Animal welfare--Public opinion.
- Animal welfare.
- Physical Description:
- x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Sex and the single animal
- Learning from animals : natural history for children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Toward a more peaceable kingdom
- Animal consciousness : some historical perspective
- Plus ça change : antivivisection then and now
- Mad cow myteries
- Understanding audiences and misunderstanding audiences : some publics for science
- Foreward to Charles Darwin : The variation of animals and plants under domestication
- Race, breed, and myths of origin : Chillingham cattle as ancient Britons
- Possessing Mother Nature : genetic capital in eighteenth-century Britain
- Our animal cousins
- Counting sheep in the English Lake District : rare breeds, local knowledge, and environmental history
- Beasts in the jungle (or wherever).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-226) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780813930602
- 081393060X
- OCLC:
- 637707703
- Publisher Number:
- 99941674682
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