The Victorian aquarium explores the vogue for home tanks that spread through Great Britain around the middle of the nineteenth century. This book offers an example of how the study of a particular object can be used to address a broad spectrum of issues. The Victorian aquarium became in fact a point of intersection between scientific, technological and cultural trends; it engaged with issues of class, gender, nationality and inter-species relations; it drew together home decor and...
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781526151971 ● Publisher Manchester University Press ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 10025489 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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