Science and culture for members only : the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century /

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A study of the role of Amsterdam's Artis Zoo and the range of the cultural events it offered in the formation of the national and class identity in the nineteenth-century Netherlands.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mehos, Donna C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, te Amsterdam > History.
Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, te Amsterdam
1800-1899
Zoos > Netherlands > Amsterdam > History > 19th century.
Jardins zoologiques > Pays-Bas > Amsterdam > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
NATURE > Animals > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
Zoos
Netherlands > Amsterdam
Popular science
Wetenschap algemeen
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Nation and nature in middle-class culture
  • Structuring a new generation's scientific society
  • Private science and the public interest
  • Internationalizing nationalist science
  • Science joins cultural life
  • Science, colonial expansion, and national identity
  • Members of the Artis Board of Directors, 1838-1870.

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