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

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

edited by R.J. Hoage and William A. Deiss ; with a foreword by Michael H. Robinson

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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"Published in association with the National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution"--P. [ii]

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-189) and index

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: hard ISBN 9780801851100

内容説明

This text charts the development of the modern zoo in the 19th century, looking at the transition from elaborate manageries for exclusive patrons to public facilities expressing the power and might of nations, and finally to institutions dedicated to public education and biological research. It examines the establishment of the first public zoos in the US between 1830 and 1880, and looks at the founding of the National Zoological Park, the first zoo created to preserve endangered species. The text begins with an overview of the history of menageries in antiquity, and their development in Europe and the US.

目次

Foreword, by Michael H. Robinson Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Overviews Reflections on Zoo history Menageries and Zoosz to 1900 Menageries, Mataphors, and Meanings Part II: European and Colonial Zoos Zoos in the Family: The Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Clan and the Three Zoos of Paris The Order of Nature: Constructing the Collections of Victorian Zoos A Tale 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 Part III: The American Scene American Showmen and European Dealers: Commerce in Wild Animals in Nineteenth-Century America The Origin and Development of American Zoological Parks to 1899 The National Zoological Park: "City of Refuge" or Zoo? Epilogue Appendixes The Value of Old Photographs of Zoological Collections The Architechture of the National Zoological Park Notes List of Contributors Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780801853739

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From King Solomon's collections of "apes and peacocks" to the menageries of English and Hapsburg monarchs, the display of exotic animals has delighted and amazed observers for centuries. Originally prized as symbols of elite wealth and power, such collections have been dramatically transformed since 1800-particularly in terms of audience and purpose. In New Worlds, New Animals, R. J. Hoage and William A. Deiss assemble essays that concentrate on the development of the modern zoo in the nineteenth century. Taking an in-depth look at the social climate of the century, they chart the transition from elaborate menageries for exclusive patrons to public facilities that expressed the power and might of nations to institutions dedicated to public education, wildlife conservation, and biological research. These changes reflect the larger transformation of the West-from the colonial era's desire to "tame" newly discovered continents to today's more egalitarian, conservation-minded world. New Worlds, New Animals begins with an overview of the history of menageries in antiquity and their development in Europe and the United States. Zoos in many countries had quite different origins-including a fish market that became an animal dealership before becoming a zoo and an Australian way station originally designed to acclimate Old World domestic stock to a new continent. The authors also examine the period in the United States between 1830 and 1880, when popular traveling animal shows and circuses gave way to the first public zoos in New York and Philadelphia. They take an in-depth look at the establishment of the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.-the first zoo created to preserve endangered species. Illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, New Worlds, New Animals gives readers a new respect for and understanding of the role of zoos in social and cultural history.

目次

Foreword, by Michael H. Robinson Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Overviews Reflections on Zoo history Menageries and Zoosz to 1900 Menageries, Mataphors, and Meanings Part II: European and Colonial Zoos Zoos in the Family: The Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Clan and the Three Zoos of Paris The Order of Nature: Constructing the Collections of Victorian Zoos A Tale 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 Part III: The American Scene American Showmen and European Dealers: Commerce in Wild Animals in Nineteenth-Century America The Origin and Development of American Zoological Parks to 1899 The National Zoological Park: "City of Refuge" or Zoo? Epilogue Appendixes The Value of Old Photographs of Zoological Collections The Architechture of the National Zoological Park Notes List of Contributors Index

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