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- Book Title
- Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin
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- ISBN
- 9781421441382
- Subject Area
- Technology & Engineering, Science, Medical, History
- Publication Name
- Getting under Our Skin : the Cultural and Social History of Vermin
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Subject
- Natural History, Social History, Agriculture / General, History
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 20 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, and rats were universal scourges, as pervasive as hunger or cold, at home in both palaces and hovels. But with the spread of microscopic close-ups of these creatures, the beginnings of sanitary standards, and the rising belief that cleanliness equaled class, vermin began to provide a way to scratch a different itch: the need to feel superior, and to justify the exploitation of those pronounced ethnically-and entomologically-inferior. In Getting Under Our Skin, Lisa T. Sarasohn tells the fascinating story of how vermin came to signify the individuals and classes that society impugns and ostracizes. How did these creatures go from annoyance to social stigma? And how did people thought verminous become considered almost a species of vermin themselves? Focusing on Great Britain and North America, Sarasohn explains how the label "vermin" makes dehumanization and violence possible. She describes how Cromwellians in Ireland and US cavalry on the American frontier both justified slaughter by warning "Nits grow into lice." Nazis not only labeled Jews as vermin, they used insecticides in the gas chambers to kill them during the Holocaust. Concentrating on the insects living in our bodies, clothes, and beds, Sarasohn also looks at rats and their social impact. Besides their powerful symbolic status in all cultures, rats' endurance challenges all human pretentions. From eighteenth-century London merchants anointing their carved bedsteads with roasted cat to repel bedbugs to modern-day hedge fund managers hoping neighbors won't notice exterminators in their penthouses, the studies in this book reveal that vermin continue to fuel our prejudices and threaten our status. Getting Under Our Skin will appeal to cultural historians, naturalists, and to anyone who has ever scratched-and then gazed in horror.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
1421441381
ISBN-13
9781421441382
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18050401789
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Getting under Our Skin : the Cultural and Social History of Vermin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Natural History, Social History, Agriculture / General, History
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Science, Medical, History
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-045435
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Sb605.G7s37 2021
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
" Getting Under Our Skin is a first: a long durée history of the creatures that have infested bodies and homes, provoking fear and disgust and haunting the imagination. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, Lisa Sarasohn's book shows the very best of the new interspecies histories."?Michael Worboys, University of Manchester, coauthor of The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain "With a colorful cast of characters that includes the nasty critters that gnaw, bite, and torment us as well as the scientists and exterminators who waged war against them, this rich cultural history puts in perspective the body's vulnerability to invasion from outside threats, from the Black Death to COVID-19, and tells a new story of how we became modern."?William Eamon, New Mexico State University, author of The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy "A grand tour through hundreds of years of human interactions with vermin of all sorts, this cornucopia of history, science, literature, popular culture, and political satire will take you places you never thought of going."?Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century "At turns amusing and appalling, Sarasohn's engaging book warns us against the danger of equating cleanliness and godliness, and shows how describing people as bedbugs, fleas?and especially lice and rats?has had deplorable and horrific consequences."?Brian W. Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe
Table of Content
Introduction: Getting Under Our Skins: Vermin in History 1. " That Nauseous Venomous Insect ": Bed Bugs in Early Modern Britain 2. Bed Bugs Creeping Through Modern Times 3. Praying Lice: Creeping into Religion, Science and Sexuality 4. Lousy Societies: Infesting the Lower Classes and Foreigners 5. THe Perils of Lice in the Modern World 6. The Flea in Humanity's Ear 7. Modern Fleas: Literal and Linguistic Weapons 8. Attacking Rodents: Rats in Early Modern Times 9. The Two Cultures of Rats: 1800-2020 Conclusion: The Power of Vermin, Introduction: Getting Under Our Skins: Vermin in History 1. "That Nauseous Venomous Insect": Bed Bugs in Early Modern Britain 2. Bed Bugs Creeping Through Modern Times 3. Praying Lice: Creeping into Religion, Science and Sexuality 4. Lousy Societies: Infesting the Lower Classes and Foreigners 5. THe Perils of Lice in the Modern World 6. The Flea in Humanity's Ear 7. Modern Fleas: Literal and Linguistic Weapons 8. Attacking Rodents: Rats in Early Modern Times 9. The Two Cultures of Rats: 1800-2020 Conclusion: The Power of Vermin
Copyright Date
2021
Dewey Decimal
632/.960941
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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