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At the same time, the dog was increasingly policed out of public space, the \"\"stray\"\" becoming the unloved counterpart of the household \"\"pet.\"\" Howell shows how this redefinition of the dog’s place illuminates our understanding of modernity and the city. He also explores the fascinating process whereby the dog’s changing role was proposed, challenged, and confronted—and in the end conditionally accepted. With a supporting cast that includes Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin, and subjects of inquiry ranging from vivisection and the policing of rabies to pet cemeteries, dog shelters, and the practice of walking the dog, \u003cem\u003eAt Home and Astray\u003c\/em\u003e is a contribution not only to the history of animals but also to our understanding of the Victorian era and its legacies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50175750570257,"sku":"CIN0813936861G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369025147153,"sku":"CIN0813936861VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51745695826193,"sku":"GOR012486273","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813936861.jpg?v=1786129983"},{"product_id":"pub-book-philip-howell-9798765102312","title":"Pub","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Erudite, quirky, and amusing.\" Sebastian Faulks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of “time.” But \u003ci\u003ePub\u003c\/i\u003e also explores the hidden features of the pub, such as corporate control, cultural acceptance and exclusion, and the role of the pub in communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52449794883857,"sku":"GOR014527121","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53612738478353,"sku":"NGR9798765102312","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53634676424977,"sku":"NLS9798765102312","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53663512264977,"sku":"NIN9798765102312","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798765102312.jpg?v=1782893818"},{"product_id":"geographies-of-regulation-book-philip-howell-9780521853651","title":"Geographies of Regulation","description":"In the nineteenth century British authorities at home and abroad attempted to regulate prostitution in order to combat the spread of venereal diseases. Philip Howell examines in detail four sites of such regulated prostitution - Liverpool, Cambridge, Gibraltar and Hong Kong - and considers the similarities as well as the differences between colonial and metropolitan practices. Placing these sites within their local, regional and global contexts, the author argues that the British administration of commercial sexuality was deeper and more extensive than conventionally portrayed. The book challenges our understanding of what constitutes colonial regulation and also confronts imperial historiographies in which projects are simply translated from metropolis to periphery. By emphasizing both particular sites of regulated prostitution, and their place in the British imperial world, this book contributes not only to histories of gender and sexuality, but also to the revision of British imperial history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52664104386833,"sku":"NLS9780521853651","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521853651.jpg?v=1762273746"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-philip-howell.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}