Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 - Tapa dura

Kean, Dr Hilda

 
9781861890146: Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800
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ISBN 10: 1861890141 ISBN 13: 9781861890146
Editorial: Reaktion Books, 1998

Sinopsis

In the early twenty-first century animals are news. Parliamentary debates, protests against fox hunting and television programmes like Animal Hospital all focus on the way in which we treat animals and on what that says about our own humanity. As vegetarianism becomes ever more popular, and animal experimentation more controversial, it is time to trace the background to contemporary debates and to situate them in a broader historical context. Hilda Kean looks at the cultural and social role of animals from 1800 to the present - at the way in which visual images and myths captured the popular imagination and encouraged sympathy for animals and outrage at their exploitation. From early campaigns against the beating of cattle and ill-treatment of horses to concern for dogs in war and cats in laboratories, she explores the relationship between popular images and public debate and action. She also illustrates how interest in animal rights and welfare was closely aligned with campaigns for political and social reform by feminists, radicals and socialists.

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Hilda Kean is Tutor in History at Ruskin College, Oxford.

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Reaktion Books
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1861890141
ISBN 13 
9781861890146
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Número de edición
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Número de páginas
272
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