A history of the earth, and animated nature /

Goldsmith, Oliver

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“…Viviparity had been described in snakes as long ago as Aristotle's Historia Animalium and European works on natural history commonly alluded to viviparity in snakes as well as lizards [11,12]. Live-bearing habits also had been documented in Chalcides chalcides [13], the subject of Studiati's 1855 work.…”

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Classics revisited. History of reptile placentology: Studiati's early account of placentation in a viviparous lizard

2015

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Classics revisited. History of reptile placentology: Studiati's early account of placentation in a viviparous lizard

2015

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“…If the lower orders loved their pets so much that in time of extreme scarcity they were willing to share what little food they had with their dogs, then ' what was the conclusion, but that they would rather deprive themselves of some of the necessaries of life, than lose their faithful 66 Ibid., col. 1003. 71 This dismissal of ' useless ' dogs was typical at the time. 1000-3.…”

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Eighteenth-Century English Debates on a Dog Tax

Tague

2008

Hist. J.

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A B S T R A C T. A tax on dogs was passed in 1796 because it seemed to address both the government's need for revenue and other serious social and economic problems. Arguments for and against a dog tax throughout the eighteenth century engaged with issues not raised in discussions of other kinds of taxes because of the unique place of dogs in human society ; positions on the question of a dog tax depended largely on assumptions about the purpose that dogs served, or ought to serve. Proponents often argued that a dog tax would decrease the population of nuisance dogs, whilst also preventing poaching. Other tax advocates presented a dog tax as a luxury tax, but there was no agreement about which kinds of dogs were luxuries, and which were necessities that should be exempt from the tax. By the time a bill was debated in parliament in 1796, the terms of the debate had shifted because of new attitudes toward animals. The tax that was ultimately passed largely ignored the interests of the primary advocates of a tax throughout the century, instead treating the pets of the poor as necessities that merited exemption.

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“…a little Mule.” As well as drawing on the context of slavery and offering a dehumanising animalistic analogy, “Mulatto” is a term which intrinsically implies essential differences between black Africans and white Europeans. Mules themselves were prone to negative connotations in the early modern era, with some naturalists describing them as “monstrous,” sterile beasts trapped between two separate species (Goldsmith, , pp. 374–375).…”

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A “FolkBiology” of racial theory?Psychology and the historiography of 18th‐century race thought

Newberry

2018

History Compass

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Human racial kinds have been disproven by genetic and anthropological analysis. A historiographical consensus has accordingly arisen over the last few decades which sees race thought and racism as historically specific inventions, the genesis of which occurred during or after the Enlightenment. At the same time, this historical narrative has achieved dominance, work in the field of psychology has argued essentialist, categorical thinking about human kinds to be an innate component of human psychology—perhaps with a root in an evolutionary “folk biology.” These two disciplines thus appear fundamentally at odds over the origins of racial thought. This article outlines the arguments for both models and offers some commentary on how future historical work might be interact with the psychological model as it looks back into the early modern period.

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A history of the earth, and animated nature /

Cited by 6 publications

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Classics revisited. History of reptile placentology: Studiati's early account of placentation in a viviparous lizard

Classics revisited. History of reptile placentology: Studiati's early account of placentation in a viviparous lizard

Eighteenth-Century English Debates on a Dog Tax

A “FolkBiology” of racial theory?Psychology and the historiography of 18th‐century race thought

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