Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots - Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris

"Adds a new dimension to our understanding of eighteenth-century France by investigating the provenance, treatment, and fate of exotic animals living in Paris in the 1700s." -- American Historical Review

List of contents

Contents: List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Live Cargo Chapter 2: The Royal Menagerie Chapter 3: Fairs and Fights Chapter 4: The Oiseleurs' Guild Chapter 5: Pampered Parrots Chapter 6: Animals in Print Chapter 7: Elephant Slaves Chapter 8: Vive la Liberte Epilogue Abbreviations List of Primary Resources Bibliographical Essay Index

About the author

Louise E. Robbins is an independent scholar and an editor at Cornell University Press. She has a doctorate in history of science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Summary

Based on wide-ranging and imaginative research, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots stands as a major contribution to the history of human-animal relations, eighteenth-century culture, and French colonialism.

Product details

• Authors: Louise E. Robbins, Louise E. (New England Quarterly) Robbins
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2002
• EAN: 9780801867538
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6753-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Animals, History, Culture; Animals, History, Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries