Getting under our skin : the cultural and social history of vermin / / Lisa T. Sarasohn
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| Autore: |
Sarasohn Lisa T. <1950->
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| Titolo: |
Getting under our skin : the cultural and social history of vermin / / Lisa T. Sarasohn
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 632.960941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pests - Control - Economic aspects - Great Britain - North America |
| Pests - Social aspects - Great Britain - North America | |
| Human-animal relationships - Great Britain - North America | |
| Pests - Psychological aspects | |
| Pests in literature | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-268) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction. Vermin in history -- "That nauseous venomous insect" : bed bugs in early modern Britain -- Bed bugs creeping through modern times -- Praying lice : creeping into religion, science, and sexuality -- Lousy societies : infesting the lower classes and foreigners -- The perils of lice in the modern world -- The flea in humanity's ear -- Modern fleas : literal and linguistic weapons -- Attacking rodents : rats in early modern times -- The two cultures of rats, 1800-2020 -- Conclusion. The power of vermin. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Vermin are not only pestering; they shape the way people look at each other and are a way that some people get to feel superior to others"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Getting under our skin |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-4139-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815287303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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