Pets in America: A HistoryEntertaining and informative, Pets in America is a portrait of Americans' relationships with the cats, dogs, birds, fishes, rodents, and other animals we call our own. More than 60 percent of U.S. households have pets, and America grows more pet-fr |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictGrier (material culture studies, Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Lib., Univ. of Delaware) begins her history of pets in America by sharing her personal history, including, appropriately enough, the fact ... Read full review
Contents
A Natural History of Pets | 19 |
At Home with Animals | 58 |
The Life and Death of Ponto | 113 |
The Bunnies States of America | 115 |
The Domestic Ethnic of Kindness to Animals | 127 |
The Edges of Pet Keeping and Its Dilemmas | 182 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Pets in America: A History |
| Author | Katherine C. Grier |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | UNC Press Books, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0807829900, 9780807829905 |
| Length | 377 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Social History History / United States / General Pets / General |
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