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Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures) by Ingrid H Tague; Project Muse is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><i>Animal Companions</i> explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates.</p><p>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 lik
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- Author
- Ingrid H Tague; Project Muse
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press; The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241234662
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, History, World
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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