[Read free] Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (Animals, History, Culture)
❀ Nigel Rothfels ❀
| #507283 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2008-06-17 | 2008-06-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.75 x6.13l,.87 | File Name: 0801889758 | 288 pages |
||1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Great Overview|By duckling4320|This book did a great job of giving an overview of important pieces in the history of Zoos. It was a compelling read.|||"Rothfels is attuned to the ironies pervading zoos' mediation of people and animals and understands that zoos operate according to entrepreneurial rather than environmental principles... The history of human displays conducted under the guise of anthropology
To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl H...
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