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Yard birds : the lives and times of America's urban chickens /
"This book traces the surprisingly long history of chickens as part of the American cityscape and illuminates the resurgent cultural phenomenon of the backyard chicken, taking readers to nineteenth-century urban poultry shows, along a "Tour de Coops," inside zoning battles, and into r...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "This book traces the surprisingly long history of chickens as part of the American cityscape and illuminates the resurgent cultural phenomenon of the backyard chicken, taking readers to nineteenth-century urban poultry shows, along a "Tour de Coops," inside zoning battles, and into religious rituals"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813949666 0813949661 |