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Animal Cities - Beastly Urban Histories (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Animal Cities - Beastly Urban Histories (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Animal Cities builds upon a recent surge of interest about animals
in the urban context. Considering animals in urban settings is now
a firmly established area of study and this book presents a number
of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives
that may be adopted. Having an 'urban history' flavour, the book
follows a fourfold agenda. First, the opening chapters look at
working and productive animals that lived and died in
nineteenth-century cities such as London, Edinburgh and Paris. The
argument here is that their presence yields insights into evolving
understandings of the category 'urban' and what made a good city.
Second, there is a consideration of nineteenth-century animal
spectacles, which influenced contemporary interpretations of the
urban experience. Third, the theme of contested animal spaces in
the city is explored further with regard to backyard chickens in
suburban Australia. Finally, there is discussion of the problem of
the public companion animal and its role in changing attitudes to
public space, illustrated with a chapter on dog-walking in
Victorian and Edwardian London. Animal Cities makes a significant
contribution to animal studies and is of interest to historical
geographers, urban, cultural, social and economic historians and
historians of policy and planning.
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