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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: Herbert Compton
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: Wilhelmina Swainston-Goodger
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 1447488172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1930, this is a detailed and informative study of the history and origins of the breed. Contents Include; 'Theories as to the Origin of the Breed,' 'China,' 'Holland,' 'England During the 17th and 18th Century,' 'France and Italy,' 'England During the Nineteenth Century,' 'Black and Other Coloured Pug-Dog,' 'The 20th Century Pug-Dog,' 'The Pug-Dog in America,' 'Schedule of Show Points,' and 'Schedule of Post-War Champions'.
Author: William Secord
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851491391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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.