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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"animal history"”.
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Serpents of Empire: Moral Encounters in Natural History c.1780-1870
… of society through Scripture, works of natural history, and imperial print culture. They appeared across literary genres – in works of art, as dead specimens in museums, and living attractions in shows and menageries – and their material and figurative presence in London was dependent upon …
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Unsung Equine Heroes: An Analysis of Equine Care and Management During the Great War
… the significance behind the use of these animals in the war before delving into the reality of how equines were cared for in terms of farrier work, skin care and management, feeding and watering, as well as psychological understandings of horses, donkeys, and mules. Through the …
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Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in the Early Union of South Africa: categorising, controlling, conserving
… the relationships between humans and animals responsible for creating ‘pests’ as an element in the physical and intellectual landscape of rural South Africa in the 1910s through the 1930s. Through analysing four groups of animals deemed to be pests – herds of ‘rogue’ elephants; …
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Mass media and public understandings of nature in interwar Britain
… between the First and Second World Wars, natural history films and radio programmes flooded into Britain’s cinemas and its airwaves, at a moment when the relationship between humans and the natural world was undergoing a profound transformation. Meanwhile, new methods of conveying knowledge like …