The Rise of Animals analyzes the intellectual origins of our changing attitudes about animals and illuminates major currents of eighteenth-century British liter

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

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What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an appreciation of human