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The great cat and dog massacre : the real story of World War Two's unknown tragedy / Hilda Kean.
LIBRA HV4805.A3 K43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kean, Hilda, author.
- Series:
- Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)
- Animal lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Animal welfare.
- Human-animal relationships--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Human-animal relationships.
- World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Animals--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Animals.
- Animals--Social aspects.
- Food supply.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introducing animals, historians, and the "people's war"
- Being a pet in the 1920s and 1930s: a chronicle of a massacre foretold?
- September 1939: no human panic. 400,000 animals killed in four days
- Disrupting previous stories: a phony war for whom?
- Building cross-species experience: eating and food in war
- Blurring the boundaries: who is going to ground? who is protecting whom?
- The growing strength of animal-human families and the wartime state
- Emotion, utility, morale on the home front: animal-human relationships
- Conclusion: change and continuity, remembering and forgetting
- Animals during the Second World War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226318325
- 022631832X
- OCLC:
- 951778665
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