Embourgeoisement

Michael Burns

  • Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives edited by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell
    Routledge, 199 pp, £35.00, February 1994, ISBN 0 415 09155 1
  • The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet-Keeping in 19th-Century Paris by Kathleen Kete
    California, 200 pp, £22.50, August 1994, ISBN 0 520 07101 8

Britain was once well known for its cruelty to animals. Bear-baiting, bull-baiting, dog-fighting and cock-fighting were enormously popular amusements; the draught horses of the poor and the race horses of the rich were pushed to limits unimaginable today; vivi-sectionists practised their trade on monkeys and dogs with impunity; and many hunters, ignoring the rules of sportsmanship, imagined no greater enjoyment, as one enthusiast put it, than ‘whole hecatombs of slaughter’.

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