Notes
[1] With China rising economically and politically over recent years, some politicians in the United States have feverishly preached a ‘China threat’ theory. The preachers maintain that China will develop into another major adversary of the United States following the former Soviet Union, its biggest Cold War rival.
[1] Oddly, the editor is not identified, though it is noteworthy that the proprietor was a vegetarian – Sir Richard Phillips (1767–1840) founded it in 1796, and retired in 1823. It seems to have had separate editors only for the first ten years.
[2] However, as it happens, the beginnings of such a discussion has subsequently been essayed by Stefan Bargheer, in ‘The Fools of the Leisure Class: Honor, Ridicule, and the Emergence of Animal Protection Legislation in England, 1740–1840’, European Journal of Sociology XLVII (1) (2006): 3–35.
[1] Caroline Daley, ‘The Invention of 1905’. In Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854–2004, edited by Greg Ryan. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005: 69–87.