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Author: Juliana Adelman Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526146045 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Civilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships. It offers a unique perspective on ordinary life in the Irish metropolis during a century of significant change and reform. At its heart is the argument that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing. It uses a social history approach but draws on a range of new and underused sources, including archives of the humane society and the zoological society, popular songs, visual ephemera and diaries. The book moves chronologically from 1830 to 1900, with each chapter focusing on specific animals and their relationship to urban changes. It will appeal to anyone fascinated by the history of cities, the history of Dublin or the history of Ireland.
Author: Juliana Adelman Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526146045 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Civilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships. It offers a unique perspective on ordinary life in the Irish metropolis during a century of significant change and reform. At its heart is the argument that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing. It uses a social history approach but draws on a range of new and underused sources, including archives of the humane society and the zoological society, popular songs, visual ephemera and diaries. The book moves chronologically from 1830 to 1900, with each chapter focusing on specific animals and their relationship to urban changes. It will appeal to anyone fascinated by the history of cities, the history of Dublin or the history of Ireland.
Author: Marge Simon Publisher: ISBN: 9780692934753 Category : Languages : en Pages : 126
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Animals Beautiful, Brutal Poetry in Motion So many are endangered Yet the Wildlife Conservation Society Fights on their behalf This poetry menagerie joins the cause Civilized Beasts is a poetry for charity anthology. Poets and artists from all over the world have come together to donate their time and their work to help save our wildlife. If you purchase this book, all of the profit earned will be donated to The Wildlife Conservation Society to aid them in their cause. Weasel Press invites all our readers to join us in our celebration of poetry and to help us in our global commitment. http: //www.wcs.org/
Author: Christopher Ryan Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1451659113 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? Civilized to Death “will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light” (Book Riot) and adds to the timely conversation that “the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive us” (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.
Author: Derek Ryan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 100919254X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 257
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Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts – from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game – became an integral part of their critique of modernity and conceptualisation of more-than-human worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions, canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations of, human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enrichens our understanding of British modernism while intervening in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn of the twentieth century to the Second World War.
Author: Laura Govednik Publisher: ISBN: 9780692600290 Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
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AnimalsBeautiful, BrutalPoetry in MotionSo many are endangeredYet the Wildlife Conservation SocietyFights on their behalfThis poetry menageriejoins the causeCivilized Beasts is a poetry for charity anthology. Poets and artists from all over the world have come together to donate their time and their work to help save our wildlife. If you purchase this book, all of the profit earned will be donated to The Wildlife Conservation Society to aid them in their cause. Weasel Press invites all our readers to join us in our celebration of poetry and to help us in our global commitment.http://www.wcs.org/Poets include:Larry D. ThomasB. H. TangKevin GillamChris WiseBanWynn OakshadowArian MabeMarge SimonJason Huitt (Lunostophiles)Eduard Dragomir SzaboSandi StrombergRenee Carter HallEdwin 'Utunu' HerrellGeorge SquaresCeòAmy FontaineAlice "Huskyteer" DrydenWinston DerdenCarolyn A. DahlKenketDwaleJoyce ParkesStefano "Mando" ZocchiDominique GoodallTelevassiDavid Andrew CowanAltivo OveroKits KoriohnDenise ClemonsJack WarrenLynn WhiteBruce BostonLaura "Munchkin" GovednikWeasel
Author: William Golding Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571290582 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 301
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A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.
Author: Nathaniel Southgate Shaler Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
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'Domesticated Animals' is a non-fiction book that examines the lives of animals who are domesticated by humans. It examines a wide variety of species, from elephants, turkeys, honey bees, and dogs. As an additional note, the author holds beliefs that are rather anthropocentric, with a specific emphasis on espousing now-debunked scientific racism. As such, the content of this book may not be suitable to modern sensibilities.
Author: David Salter Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 0859916243 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 178
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It argues that through their depictions of animals, medieval writers were not only able to reflect upon their own humanity, but were also able to explore the meaning of more abstract values and ideas (such as civility, sanctity and nobility) that were central to the culture of the time."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jack Weatherford Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307755460 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 401
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A “provocative [and] vivid” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) look at the primitive cultures that have given many gifts to the modern world, and how their very existence is now threatened “This book should serve as a ‘wake-up’ call to people everywhere.”—Library Journal In Indian Givers and Native Roots, renowned anthropologist Jack Weatherford explored the clash between Native American and European cultures. Now, in Savages and Civilization, Weatherford broadens his focus to examine how civilization threatens to obliterate unique tribal and ethnic cultures around the world—and in the process imperils its own existence. As Weatherford explains, the relationship between “civilized” and “savage” peoples through history has encompassed not only violence, but also a surprising degree of cooperation, mutual influence, trade, and intermarriage. But this relationship has now entered a critical stage everywhere in the world, as indigenous peoples fiercely resist the onslaught of a global civilization that will obliterate their identities. Savages and Civilization powerfully demonstrates that our survival as a species is based not on a choice between savages and civilization, but rather on a commitment to their vital coexistence.
Author: Juliana Adelman
Author: Juliana Adelman
Author: Marge Simon
Author: Vincent Corbeau
Author: Christopher Ryan
Author: Derek Ryan
Author: Laura Govednik
Author: William Golding
Author: Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Author: David Salter
Author: Jack Weatherford