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Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century

Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century

Dominik Ohrem

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2025
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Historia
ISBN:
9780367470005

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Volume I traces the significance of animals, and the 'problem' of animality, within the currents of U.S. social and scientific thought during a period marked by a rapid expansion of American and transatlantic print culture.

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