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At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain
Philip Howell
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Description for At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country’s social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog’s changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about.
Despite a relationship with humans going back thousands of years, the dog only became fully domesticated and installed at the ... Read more
Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country’s social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog’s changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about.
Despite a relationship with humans going back thousands of years, the dog only became fully domesticated and installed at the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936864
SKU
V9780813936864
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Ref
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About Philip Howell
Philip Howell, Senior Lecturer in Geography at Cambridge University, UK, is the author of Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire.
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