Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Tague, Ingrid H.

Paperback

Series: Animalibus, Book 6

General World HistoryBritish HistoryPets: General

ISBN10: 0271065893
ISBN13: 9780271065892
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jun 18 2015
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Animal Companions explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates.

While Europeans kept pets long before the eighteenth century, many believed that doing so was at best frivolous and at worst downright dangerous. Ingrid Tague argues that for Britons of the eighteenth century, pets offered a unique way to articulate what it meant to be human and what society ought to look like. With the dawn of the Enlightenment and the end of the Malthusian cycle of dearth and famine that marked previous eras, England became the wealthiest nation in Europe, with a new understanding of religion, science, and non-European cultures and unprecedented access to consumer goods of all kinds. These transformations generated excitement and anxiety that were reflected in debates over the rights and wrongs of human-animal relationships.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

British History

View All