Animal Cities

Beastly Urban Histories
Herausgeber: Atkins, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives that may be adopted in the study of animals in the urban context. It covers areas such as working and productive animals in the nineteenth century, animal spectacles in the nineteenth century, contested animal spaces in the city and the problem of the public companion animal and its role in changing attitudes to public space. This book is of interest to historical geographers, urban, cultural, social and economic historians and historians of policy and planning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781409446552
• ISBN-10: 1409446557
• Artikelnr.: 45375289

Autorenporträt

Peter Atkins is a Professorial Fellow in Geography at Durham University. His research is devoted to the historical geography of food systems, particularly with regard to livestock products and zoonotic diseases. His book is Liquid Materialities: a History of Milk, Science and the Law was published by Ashgate in 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London
3: The 'Charmed Circle'
4: The Urban Blood and Guts Economy
5: This Nefarious Traffic: Livestock and Public Health in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh 1
6: Undesirable Nature: Animals, Resources and Urban Nuisance in Nineteenth-Century Paris
7: Locating the Transformation of Sensibilities in Nineteenth-Century London
8: Fowls and the Contested Productive Spaces of Australian Suburbia, 1890-1990
9: Between the Muzzle and the Leash: Dog-walking, Discipline, and the Modern City 1