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New worlds, new animals : from menagerie to zoological park in the nineteenth century
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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- Description
- xv, 198 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- 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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-189) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-7985
- ISBN
- 0801851106 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0801853737 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95033006 //r97
- OCLC
- 32821216
- Title
- 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.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-189) and index.
- Added Author
- Hoage, R. J.Deiss, William A.National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-7985