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Exhibiting animals in nineteenth-century Britain :empathy, education, entertainment /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exhibiting animals in nineteenth-century Britain :Helen Cowie.
Reminder of title:	empathy, education, entertainment /
Author:	Cowie, Helen,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	1800 - 1899
Subject:	ZoosHistory19th century.Great Britain
Subject:	Great Britain.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137384447
ISBN:	1137384441 (electronic bk.)

Exhibiting animals in nineteenth-century Britain :empathy, education, entertainment /
Cowie, Helen,

Exhibiting animals in nineteenth-century Britain :empathy, education, entertainment /Helen Cowie. - 1 online resource.

1. The Lions of London -- 2. Zoo, Community and Civic Pride -- 3. Elephants in the High Street -- 4. Animals Wholesale and Retail -- 5. Seeing the Elephant -- 6. Cruelty and Compassion -- 7. Dangerous Frolicking -- 8. In the Lions' Den -- Conclusion.

In an era of overseas exploration and imperial expansion, exotic animals were among the many foreign commodities to appear on British soil. They were a source of fascination to people across the social spectrum and served simultaneously as objects of entertainment, enlightenment and reflection. Focusing on zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, "Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain" explores how contemporaries thought about rare animals, where they encountered them and what symbolic, pedagogic and scientific value they attached to them. Helen Cowie uses animal exhibitions as a vehicle through which to examine issues of race, class, gender and colonialism. She devotes particular attention to travelling menageries, whose appeal transcended social boundaries and whose star exhibits included female lion tamers, 'ravenous hyenas' and pistol-firing elephants.

ISBN: 1137384441 (electronic bk.)

Source: 708875Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.com

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016747584UkSubjects--Chronological Terms:

1800 - 1899
Subjects--Topical Terms:

688610
Zoos
--History--Great Britain--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

287994
Great Britain.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QL76.5.G7

Dewey Class. No.: 712/.50942

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