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Author: Herbert Compton
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 626
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Author: Herbert Compton
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 626
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aaron Skabelund
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0801463246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected a statue of Hachiko outside the station. The story of Hachiko reveals much about the place of dogs in Japan's cultural imagination. In the groundbreaking Empire of Dogs, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines the history and cultural significance of dogs in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan, beginning with the arrival of Western dog breeds and new modes of dog keeping, which spread throughout the world with Western imperialism. He highlights how dogs joined with humans to create the modern imperial world and how, in turn, imperialism shaped dogs' bodies and their relationship with humans through its impact on dog-breeding and dog-keeping practices that pervade much of the world today. In a book that is both enlightening and entertaining, Skabelund focuses on actual and metaphorical dogs in a variety of contexts: the rhetorical pairing of the Western "colonial dog" with native canines; subsequent campaigns against indigenous canines in the imperial realm; the creation, maintenance, and in some cases restoration of Japanese dog breeds, including the Shiba Inu; the mobilization of military dogs, both real and fictional; and the emergence of Japan as a "pet superpower" in the second half of the twentieth century. Through this provocative account, Skabelund demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how people—especially those with power and wealth—use animals to define, regulate, and enforce political and social boundaries between themselves and other humans, especially in imperial contexts.
Author: William Secord
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA visual feast of outstanding work by British and American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, this fascinating account of most of the popular breeds provides an original and penetrating artistic record and traces the evolution of 50 breeds.
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: International Shakespeare Association. World Congress
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780874136524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn close to fifty sessions, the congress theme - "Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century" - allowed for critical approaches from many directions: through twentieth-century theater history on almost every continent; through a range of media representations from film to databases; through the changing theoretical models of the period that extend to the latest politically inflected readings; and through appropriations of the play-texts by modern art forms such as recent fiction.
Author: Judith Watt
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780316027137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures dazzling, rarely seen photpgraphs by Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Lord Snowden and more. The dogs that have appeared in Vogue have inspired wonderful artlicles by writers such as Dorothy Parker and Lesley Blanch.
Author: Catherine Johns
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780674030930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe juxtaposition and explanation of images as diverse as Greek pottery, Victorian jewelry, Assyrian sculpture, and Japanese netsuke, illuminates our understanding of the place of dogs in human society around the world. This book explores these cultural expressions and reflections of our deep and long-standing interest in dogs.
Author: Er Myron Shelley
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Secord
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851491391
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