Cats
A History
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Product details:
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date of Publication 2 June 2026
- ISBN 9781421454184
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 228x152x36 mm
- Weight 740 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Maps 700
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Long description:
A sweeping and fascinating history of cat-human relationships.
For more than 10,000 years, cats have prowled at the edges of human life. But, starting only a few decades ago, hundreds of millions of them became pets. In Cats, Rod Phillips shares a sweeping cultural and social history of felines, tracing their shifting place across societies and centuries, from ancient Egypt's revered hunters to Europe's suspected familiars of witches and from shipboard rodent controllers to cherished internet icons.
Phillips illustrates how cats have always occupied spaces both familiar and mysterious and how their perceived independence and disruptive nature?and their associations with women, the supernatural, and outsiders?have shaped humans' attitudes toward these fascinating creatures. Cats have been lauded as companions and vermin-killers, reviled as threats to moral and ecological order, and cherished for the very qualities that make them hard to control. This richly textured portrait of cats explores their significance in religion, politics, gender, literature, warfare, and pop culture. It also provides profound insights into our relationships with other animals, especially dogs and rodents.
The many roles that cats have played throughout history illuminate a variety of contradictions in humans' perceptions of them: as affectionate yet aloof, adorable and evil, ordinary and exceptional. This book is the definitive story of the feline presence in human history?an elegant study of how we live with animals whom we see as living by their own rules.
[A]n exhaustive and engrossing survey of the millennia-long relationship between cats and people... traces the process of their rise with aplomb, from Ancient Greece to Grumpy Cat.
?Foreword Reviews More
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The beginning: from wildcats to cats
2. Ancient Egypt: A celebration of cats
3. Ancient Greece and Rome: The ambiguity of cats
4. The Middle Ages: Cats in the secular world
5. The Middle Ages: The Church turns on cats
6. Early Modern Europe: Cats as disruptors
7. The Enlightenment: Thinking about cats
8. Cats go global. 1500-1900
9. The 19th century: The war on cats
10. The 19th century: In defense of cats
11. The 20th century: Pet cats on the rise
12. Cats in the modern world: Here to stay?
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