Animal, History, Culture
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Savages and Beasts : The Birth of the Modern Zoo
Nigel Rothfels / The Johns Hopkins University Press / 2002-8-30 / USD 38.00(少于10人评价)To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural pl...
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The Invention of the Modern Dog : Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain
Michael Worboys、Julie-Marie Strange、Neil Pemberton / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2018-10-15 / GBP 29.50(目前无人评价)For centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sp...
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Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots : Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Louise E. Robbins / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2002-1-2 / USD 58.00(少于10人评价)In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Menagerie at the annual winte...
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Wired Wilderness : Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife
Etienne Benson / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2010-10-19 / USD 55.00(目前无人评价)American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitte...
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The Horse in the City : Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Clay McShane、Joel Tarr / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2007-5-31 / USD 56.00(少于10人评价)The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the ...
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Noble Brutes : How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture
Donna Landry / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2008-12-23 / USD 55.00(目前无人评价)"His lordship's Arabian," a phrase often heard in eighteenth-century England, ...
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Entertaining Elephants : Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus
Susan Nance / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2013-1-14 / USD 55.00(少于10人评价)Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertain...
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Horse People : Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington and Newmarket
Rebecca Cassidy / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2010-6 / USD 53.00(目前无人评价)The world of Thoroughbred racing is glamorous, secretive, dangerous, and seduc...
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Bred for Perfection : Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800
Margaret E. Derry / Johns Hopkins University Press / 2003-10-7 / USD 47.00(目前无人评价)How did animal breeding emerge as a movement? Who took part and for what reaso...
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Looking for a Few Good Males : Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology
Erika Lorraine Milam / The Johns Hopkins University Press / 2010-2-1 / USD 60.00(少于10人评价)Why do female animals select certain mates, and how do scientists determine th...