Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 9780198714705, 9780191024122, 019871470X

The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London 9780755695065, 9781784530846

In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down

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The History of Gambling in England 9781508441908

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History of the World in 100 Animals 9781471186325, 9781471186332

A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the bigges

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A Cultural History of Animals in the Renaissance 9781350049550, 9781845203955

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 The Renaissance was an extraordinary period of change in the West, fuelled by ch

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A History of the World in 100 Animals 9781643139159, 9781643139166

Fully illustrated in color, a fascinating exploration of the one hundred animals that have had the most profound influen

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A History of the World in 100 Animals 1643139150, 9781643139159

 Fully illustrated in color, a fascinating exploration of the one hundred animals that have had the most profound influe

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The History of the Provincial Press in England 1441156038, 9781441156037

Regional newspapers around the globe are fighting to survive in the face of challenges to their economic model, due to t

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Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots : Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris 9780801867538, 9780801876776

In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two t

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A History of Police in England 9780875851198

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Before Disenchantment : Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World [1 ed.] 9781861897480, 9781861894373

Imagine barnacle geese--creatures that begin life as leaves on a tree growing above water, but turn into small birds as

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