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Author:

Kean, Hilda, author.

Title:

The great cat and dog massacre : the real story of World War Two's unknown tragedy / Hilda Kean.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

pages.

Subject:

World War (1939-1945)
Animal welfare--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Human-animal relationships--Great Britain--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--Great Britain.
Animals--History--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Animal welfare.
Animals--Social aspects.
Food supply.
Human-animal relationships.
Great Britain.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introducing animals, historians, and the "people's war" -- Being a pet in the 1920s and 1930s: a chronicle of a massacre foretold? -- September 1939: no human panic. 400,000 animals killed in four days -- Disrupting previous stories: a phony war for whom? -- Building cross-species experience: eating and food in war -- Blurring the boundaries: who is going to ground? who is protecting whom? -- The growing strength of animal-human families and the wartime state -- Emotion, utility, morale on the home front: animal-human relationships -- Conclusion: change and continuity, remembering and forgetting -- Animals during the Second World War.

Series:

Animal lives

ISBN:

022631832X
9780226318325

OCLC:

(OCoLC)951778665

LCCN:

2016027115

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Burton Payne Library (Peosta)