{"product_id":"9780271065885-animal-companions","title":"Animal Companions","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores how thinking about pets in eighteenth-century Britain reflected and influenced the great social and cultural debates of the day, including struggles over gender, race, class, and national identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnimal Companions\u003c\/i\u003e explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a broad array of sources, including natural histories, periodicals, visual and material culture, and the testimony of pet owners themselves, \u003ci\u003eAnimal Companions\u003c\/i\u003e shows how pets became both increasingly visible indicators of spreading prosperity and catalysts for debates about the morality of the radically different society emerging in eighteenth-century Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40928664682593,"sku":"9780271065885","price":56.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27663199.jpg?v=1722007255","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780271065885-animal-companions","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}