The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America - Susan J. Pearson - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226652016 - July 15, 2011
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The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America


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Seeks to understand the institutional, cultural, legal, and political significance of the perceived bond between these two kinds of helpless creatures and the attempts made to protect them. This title explores the limits of and motivation behind this power and argues that while these reformers claimed nothing more than sympathy.


280 pages, 14 halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 15, 2011
ISBN13 9780226652016
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 280
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 23 mm   ·   522 g
Language English  

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