This collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between humans and nonhuman animals in Britain. As the contributors pose questions related to mod

Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Britain over th

The Rise of Animals and the Descent of Man illuminates compelling historical connections between a current fascination with animal life and the promotion of the

European culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a radical redefinition of 'humanity' and its place in the environment, together with a ne

How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of human-animal interactions: from