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#10

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#10

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According to Wikipedia, Harriet Ritvo is an American historian who specializes in British history, particularly environmental history and the history of natural history. Ritvo is the Arthur J. Connor Professor of History at MIT and a member of the Program in Science, Technology and Society, and she was the head of MIT's History Faculty from 1999-2006.

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The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1988) (482)
The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (1997) (233)
Evolution and Entropy@@@Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (1988) (122)
on the animal turn (2007) (86)
Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights. (1992) (80)
Ethics and Animals (1983) (78)
Macropolitics of nineteenth-century literature : nationalism, exoticism, imperialism (1991) (56)
The Periodical Press in Eighteenth-Century English and French Society: A Cross-Cultural Approach (1981) (49)
The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism (2009) (42)
The Emergence of Modern Pet-Keeping (1987) (34)
Learning from Animals: Natural History for Children in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2009) (29)
ANIMALS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: COMPLICATED ATTITUDES AND COMPETING CATEGORIES (2002) (26)
Animal Planet (2004) (25)
History and Animal Studies (2002) (25)
All the fish of the sea (2009) (24)
Border trouble : shifting the line between people and other animals (1995) (23)
Like Engend'ring like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England (1988) (22)
Race, Breed, and Myths of Origin: Chillingham Cattle as Ancient Britons (1992) (19)
Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History (2010) (18)
President's LectureGoing Forth and Multiplying: Animal Acclimatization and Invasion (2012) (16)
Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism (1991) (15)
Professional Scientists and Amateur Mermaids: Beating the Bounds in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1991) (13)
What’s Next for Environmental History? (2005) (12)
How Wild is Wild (2014) (10)
At the Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (1992) (10)
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (2011) (10)
Plus Ça Change: Anti-Vivisection Then and Now (1984) (9)
Picturing Animals in Britain 1750–1850 (2011) (9)
Animal Consciousness: Some Historical Perspective1 (2000) (9)
Nick Fiddes acknowledges near the beginning of this pithily titled study, Meat: A Natural Symbol (London and New York: Routledge, 1991) (1993) (9)
Plus Ça Change: Antivivisection Then and Now (1984) (7)
Fighting for Thirlmere--The Roots of Environmentalism (2003) (7)
Seeds that never grew in Sweden (2000) (7)
Mad cow mysteries. (2005) (7)
Our Animal Cousins (2004) (6)
Ahab's Manifest Destiny (1991) (6)
Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010) (6)
Manchester v. Thirlmere and the Construction of the Victorian Environment (2007) (6)
Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth- Century Others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'Education sentimentale (1991) (5)
Brian Regal. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. (2015) (4)
New presbyter or old priest? Reconsidering zoological taxonomy in Britain, 1750—1840 (1990) (4)
BOOK REVIEW: Robert Malcolmson and Stephanos Mastoris.THE ENGLISH PIG: A HISTORY. Rio Grande, Ohio and London: Hambledon, 1998. (2000) (4)
Men among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. (1995) (3)
The National Humanities Center (1978) (3)
An English Arcadia : landscape and architecture in Britain and America (1992) (3)
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See (2007) (3)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830–2000 (2009) (3)
Beasts in the jungle (or wherever) (2008) (3)
For Your Eyes Only:: Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son (1991) (2)
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play (review) (2012) (2)
Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry (1991) (2)
Back Story: Migration, Assimilation and Invasion in the Nineteenth Century [book chapter] (2014) (2)
Sex and the Single Animal (1988) (2)
Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas in Context (1991) (2)
Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History. Edited by Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture, Volume 5. New York: Routledge, 2004. ix+ 275 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. Cloth $90.00, paper $24.95 (2005) (2)
Calling the Wild: Selection, Domestication, and Species (2013) (2)
Counting Sheep in the English Lake District: Rare Breeds, Local Knowledge, and Environmental History (2010) (2)
Review of John K. Walton and Jason Wood, eds., The Making of a Cultural Landscape: The English Lake District as a Tourist Destination, 1750-2010 (2015) (1)
Environment and Empire, by William Beinart and Lotte Hughes (2008) (1)
Migration, assimilation, and invasion in the nineteenth century 1 (2018) (1)
Humans & humanists (2009) (1)
Harlan B. Miller and William H. Williams, eds., Ethics and Animals. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1983. 416 pp.; $39.50 in the United States; $49.50 abroad; ISBN 0-89603-036-9 (1985) (1)
The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium (review) (2007) (1)
Edging into the Wild (2013) (1)
AMONG ANIMALS (2015) (1)
Humanimalia Roundtable on Breed (1)
21H.968J / STS.415J Nature, Environment, and Empire, Spring 2005 (2005) (0)
21H.421 Introduction to Environmental History, Spring 2004 (2004) (0)
Review of Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences; Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences (2010) (0)
The English Pig: A History (review) (2000) (0)
CHRISTINE KENYON-JONES, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. Nineteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. viii+229. ISBN 0-7546-0332-6. £42.50 (hardback). (2002) (0)
Narratives of Nature: Response (2005) (0)
Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France (1991) (0)
2. The World as Zoo: Acclimatization in the Nineteenth Century (2019) (0)
The Darwinian Eye (2009) (0)
Animal history: an interview with Professor Harriet Ritvo. (2021) (0)
Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply (review) (2004) (0)
The Animals' Turn? (2009) (0)
Looking at Animals in Human History. By Linda Kalof (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007) 222 pp. $45.00 (2008) (0)
A Public Scientist (1997) (0)
Review of Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010) (0)
Next of Kin : Looking at the Great Apes (1995) (0)
MacGREGOR, Arthur. Animal encounters: human and animal interaction in Britain from the Norman conquest to World War One. Reaktion, London: 2012. Pp 552; illustrated. Price £ 40.00 ISBN 9781861898494. (2013) (0)
Eighteenth-Century English and French Society: A Cross-Cultural Approach (2016) (0)
Q is for Quagga (2020) (0)
Review of The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play (2011) (0)
Edging into the Wild Citation (2012) (0)
Resisting System: Britain, Buffon, And The Avoidance of Linnaeus (2009) (0)
Recent Work in Animal History (and How We Got Here) (2022) (0)
Looking at Animals in Human History (review) (2008) (0)
Review of The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680-1860 (2011) (0)
Book/Video Reviews (1999) (0)
Reaching and Grasping: Some Reflections on Joachim Radkau's Nature and Power (2013) (0)
"Daedalus" and the Eighteenth Century (1979) (0)
The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris. By Anita Guerrini (2017) (0)
21H.909J / 21H.969J / 21A.390J / 21A.835J People and Other Animals, Fall 2010 (2010) (0)
Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals: Human Perceptions, Attitudes and Approaches to Management (Book review) (2012) (0)
Keith Tester. Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights. New York: Routledge. 1991. Pp. vi, 218. Cloth $59.95, paper $15.95 (1992) (0)
The London Zoo and the Victorians 1828–1859 (2015) (0)
Reaching and Grasping (2013) (0)
Essays on science and society. Fighting for Thirlmere--the roots of environmentalism. (2003) (0)
Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830–2000 . Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x+247. ISBN 978-0-230-54240-2. £45.00 (hardback). (2009) (0)
Humans and Humanists (2009) (0)
Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal–Human Relations. Edited by Nancy Cushing and Jodi Frawley (2019) (0)
P. M. Harman. The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680–1860. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2009. Pp. xi, 393. $65.00 (2011) (0)
On Peter P. Good, A Materia Medica Animalia (2012) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Michael Taggart.PRIVATE PROPERTY AND ABUSE OF RIGHTS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND: THE STORY OF EDWARD PICKLES AND THE BRADFORD WATER SUPPLY. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (2004) (0)
Mainstreaming monsters (1999) (0)
Review: The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry 1630-1660 by James Turner; The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx (1979) (0)
Learning from Animals: Natural History for Children (2013) (0)
Environment and Empire (review) (2009) (0)
Arguing about Animals (1985) (0)
A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Men among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1993. Pp. xv, 267. Cloth $45.00, paper $16.95 (1995) (0)
Science As Literature, Science As Text (2000) (0)
Seeing Is Believing? (2007) (0)
21H.909 People and Other Animals, Fall 2005 (2005) (0)
Book Review:The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant's Journey from Deep in India to the Heart of Rome Silvio A. Bedini (2001) (0)
Enlightenment’s Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism. By Fredrik Albritton Jonsson.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+344. $50.00. (2015) (0)
European Natural History Tradition (2018) (0)
History of science lite (2004) (0)
Killing Animals. By the Animal Studies Group. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 217 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00 (2007) (0)
Review of Animals as Domesticates: A World View through History (2013) (0)
Reviews of Books:Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand Thomas R. Dunlap (2002) (0)
Making Animals Real (2008) (0)
Book Review: Reading the Rocks (1987) (0)
Barbara T. Gates. Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1998. Pp. xv, 293. $55.00. ISBN 0-226-28442-5. (2000) (0)
Border Trouble: Shifting the Line (2016) (0)

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