Science and culture for members only : the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century /

A study of the role of Amsterdam's Artis Zoo and the range of the cultural events it offered in the formation of the national and class identity in the nineteenth-century Netherlands.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mehos, Donna C. (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2006.
Series:	Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
Subjects:	Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, te Amsterdam > History. Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, te Amsterdam. Zoos > Netherlands > Amsterdam > History > 19th century. Jardins zoologiques > Pays-Bas > Amsterdam > Histoire > 19e siècle. Mathematics and science. Science: general issues. NATURE > Animals > General. SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General. NATURE > Animals > Wildlife. Zoos. Netherlands > Amsterdam. 1800-1899 Popular science Wetenschap algemeen Electronic books. History.
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Table of Contents:

Nation and nature in middle-class culture
Structuring a new generation's scientific society
Private science and the public interest
Internationalizing nationalist science
Science joins cultural life
Science, colonial expansion, and national identity
Members of the Artis Board of Directors, 1838-1870.