Overview

Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature so that its inner workings could be understood also looms large in the history of science, and thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and the zoo as we know it today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by Zoo, a comprehensive history of the zoo in the Western world.

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Author:   Eric Baratay ,  Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.620kg
ISBN:  

9781861891112

ISBN 10:   1861891113
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 May 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9781861892089
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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A fascinating and wide-ranging history of zoos from the menageries attached to aristocratic palaces and villas in the 1500s to those in modern cities. . . . Provides the intriguing and often harrowing background to one of the most agonising dilemmas of our time: with ever more species threatened with extinction in their natural habitat, should we seek to preserve them in special sanctuaries and if so where and how? --The Times

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Eric Baratay is Senior Lecturer in History at the Universit� Jean-Moulin, Lyon. Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier is Professor of Art History at the Universit� Jean-Moulin, Lyon. She is the author of many books, including A History of French Still Life in the Nineteenth Century (1998).

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