Reckoning with the Beast
Subtitle: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780801866777
Subjects: Animals & society; Social history; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Welfare Policies And Programs; Nature; Psychology; Nature/Ecology; British Isles; USA; Social Work; History; United States - General; History / United States / General; Animal Rights; Animals
First sentence: Recorded history, in a sense, begins with the famous cave paintings at Lascaux in southwestern France.