Civilised By Beasts

Civilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships. It offers a unique perspective on ordinary life in the Irish metropolis during a century of significant change and reform. At its heart is the argument that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing. It uses a social history approach but draws on a range of new and underused sources, including archives of the humane society and the zoological society, popular songs, visual ephemera and diaries. The book moves chronologically from 1830 to 1900, with each chapter focusing on specific animals and their relationship to urban changes. It will appeal to anyone fascinated by the history of cities, the history of Dublin or the history of Ireland.

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'The Grandeur That Was Rome by J.C. Stobart' is a history book that examines Roman culture and civilization from the point of view of humanity and the progress of civilization. The author makes a deliberate attempt to adjust the historical balance by emphasizing the value of Rome's contribution to the lasting welfare of mankind. This book presents a new interpretation of Rome's history, where the author believes that the Empire without the Republic is almost as incomplete as the Republic without the Empire. It is a derivative history intended for readers who are not specialists, and its point of view is derived from the author's own. The pictures in the book have been chosen to convey an impression of grand building, vast, solid, and utilitarian, rather than of finished sculpture by Greek hands. This book will greatly appeal to readers who are interested in ancient history and want to gain a fresh perspective on the Roman Empire.

This volume makes clear how Nazism was not only an attack on the human species and the Jewish people in particular, but also an attack on nature. Further, it examines the victims of the Holocaust for whom nature was not only a source of supplementary pain, but also a source of hope and redemption. The book reveals parallels between the attitudes of the bystanders during the Holocaust and us - bystanders today - watching the ecological disaster with the same passivity. The book's unique conclusion will challenge each reader. In addition to teaching us to be critical about our concepts of nature, as well as to remember the victims, the Holocaust also teaches us to become rescuers rather than bystanders in light of the contemporary destruction of nature. (Series: Geschichte des Holocaust - Vol. 8)

What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.