Animal companions : pets and social change in eighteenth-century Britain /

Animal companions : pets and social change in eighteenth-century Britain /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tague, Ingrid H., 1968- author.
Imprint:	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Animalibus Animalibus.
Subject:	Pets -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Human-animal relationships -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Pet owners -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Human-animal relationships. Pet owners. Pets -- Social aspects. Great Britain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11754992

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ISBN:	9780271067445 0271067446 9780241234662 0241234662 9780271065885 0271065885 9780241187760
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Tague, Ingrid H., 1968- Animal companions 9780271065885

Table of Contents:

The material conditions of pet keeping
Domesticating the exotic
Fashioning the pet
A privilege or a right?
Pets and their people.