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"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.

Title Animal companions : pets and social change in eighteenth-century Britain / Ingrid H. Tague.
Publisher University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content The material conditions of pet keeping -- Domesticating the exotic -- Fashioning the pet -- A privilege or a right? -- Pets and their people.
Series Animalibus
Volume 5
Extent 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages :) illustrations

Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010718357305171
MARC RECORDS
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