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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Levy, Philip, 1963- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780813949666