New worlds, new animals : from menagerie to zoological park in the nineteenth century

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Title:

New worlds, new animals : from menagerie to zoological park in the nineteenth century

Author:

Hoage, R. J.

Publication Information:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Physical Description:

xv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

General Note:

"Published in association with the National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution."

Most of the chapters are derived from papers delivered at a symposium held Oct. 1989 to celebrate the centennial of the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park.

Language:

English

Contents:

Reflections on zoo history / Menageries and zoos to 1900 / Menageries, metaphors, and meanings / Zoos in the family: the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire clan and the three zoos of Paris / Order of nature: constructing the collections of Victorian zoos / A Tales of two zoos: the Hamburg Zoological Garden and Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark / Zoos and aquariums of Berlin / A Paradox of purposes: acclimatization origins of the Melbourne zoo / Ram Bramha Sanyal and the establishment of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens / American showmen and European dealers: commerce in wild animals in nineteenth-century America / Origin and development of American zoological parks to 1899 / National Zoological Park: "city of refuge" or zoo?

Corporate Subject:

National Zoological Park (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.

National Zoological Park -- History -- 19th century.

Subject Term:

Zoos -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.

Menageries -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Hoage, R. J.

Deiss, William A.

Added Corporate Author:

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

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