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

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Corporate Author: National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Other Authors: Hoage, R. J., Deiss, William A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Zoos > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Menageries > History > 19th century > Congresses.
National Zoological Park (U.S.) > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Reflections on zoo history / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
  • Menageries and zoos to 1900 / R.J. Hoage, Anne Roskell, and Jane Mansour
  • Menageries, metaphors, and meanings / Thomas Veltre
  • Zoos in the family: the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire clan and the three zoos of Paris / Michael A. Osborne
  • The Order of nature: constructing the collections of Victorian zoos / Harriet Ritvo
  • A Tales of two zoos: the Hamburg Zoological Garden and Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark / Herman Reichenbach
  • Zoos and aquariums of Berlin / Harro Strehlow
  • A Paradox of purposes: acclimatization origins of the Melbourne zoo / Linden Gillbank
  • Ram Bramha Sanyal and the establishment of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens / D.K. Mittra
  • American showmen and European dealers: commerce in wild animals in nineteenth-century America / Richard W. Flint
  • The Origin and development of American zoological parks to 1899 / Vernon N. Kisling Jr.
  • The National Zoological Park: "city of refuge" or zoo? / Helen Lefkowitz-Horowitz.