Velten Hannah Velten

Beastly London (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Animals in the City

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Horse-drawn cabs rattling down muddy roads, cattle herded through the streets to the Smithfield meat market for slaughter, roosters crowing at the break of dawn-London was once filled with a cacophony of animal noises (and smells). But over the last thirty years, the city seems to have banished animals from its streets. In Beastly London, Hannah Velten uses a wide range of primary sources to explore the complex and changing relationship between Londoners of all classes and their animal neighbors. Velten travels back in history to describe a time when Londoners shared their homes with pets and livestock-along with a variety of other pests, vermin, and bedbugs; Londoners imported beasts from all corners of the globe for display in their homes, zoos, and parks; and ponies flying in hot air balloons and dancing fleas were considered entertainment. As she shows, London transformed from a city with a mainly exploitative relationship with animals to the birthplace of animal welfare societies and animal rights' campaigns. Packed with over one hundred illustrations, Beastly London is a revealing look at how animals have been central to the city's success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780232171
• Artikelnr.: 40306056

Autorenporträt

Hannah Velten is a former agricultural journalist and the author of Milk: A Global History and Cow, also published by Reaktion Books.