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Savages and beasts : the birth of the modern zoo /
"To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to have been 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Animals, history, culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Entering the Gates
- Chapter 1: Gardens of History
- Chapter 2: Catching Animals
- Chapter 3: “Fabulous Animals�: Showing People
- Chapter 4: Paradise
- Conclusion: When Animals Speak
- Notes
- A Note on Sources
- Index
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- D
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- F
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- I
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