Animal History in the Modern City
Subtitle: Exploring Liminality
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781350054035
Subjects: Animals; Cities and towns, history
Description: "Animals are increasingly recognized as fit and proper subjects for historians, yet their place in conventional historical narratives remains contested. This volume argues for a history of animals based on the centrality of liminality - the state of being on the threshold, not quite one thing yet not quite another. Since animals stand between nature and culture, wildness and domestication, the countryside and the city, and tradition and modernity, the concept of liminality has a special resonance for historical animal studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.