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The final chapter summarizes the institutional, legislative, and cultural changes in human–animal relations achieved by the first wave of the animal protection movement in Britain. It also reflects on the value of a history that privileges agency over structure and centres on analysis of the movement’s mediating power and creative agency in relation to the various traditions surrounding them.
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Salt, “Among the Authors,” 360.
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“Our Jubilee Meeting,” Animal World, August 1874, 114–122, at 118.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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For works that cautioned against this grand narrative of progress and explored the complexities of human–animal relations in the nineteenth century, see, e.g., Ritvo, “Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain”; Donald, Picturing Animals in Britain 1750–1850; Cowie, Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Howell, At Home and Astray.
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See Chapter 3.
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For a comprehensive treatment of British animal law, see Radford, Animal Welfare Law in Britain.
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See A. M. F. Cole, “The Traffic of Worn-Out and Disease Horses.”
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Pallares-Burke, The New History: Confessions and Conversations, 161–162.
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Thompson, “The Politics of Theory,” 407–408.
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Despite Thompson’s aspirations and attempts to bring the experience and agency of the historical subject back into history, his Marxist social explanation was still considered not to have broken free from the determinist relations posited between material life and the consciousness of historical subjects. See G. M. Spiegel, Practicing History, 9–10.
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Skinner, Visions of Politics, 2, 7.
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Li, Ch. (2019). Final Reflections. In: Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement. The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52651-9_7
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