| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Nation and Nature in Middle-Class Culture; Chapter 1: Structuring a New Generation's Scientific Society; Chapter 2: Private Science and the Public Interest; Chapter 3: Internationalizing Nationalist Science; Chapter 4: Science Joins Cultural Life; Conclusion: Science, Colonial Expansion, and National Identity; Appendix: Members of the Artis Board of Directors, 1838-1870; Notes; List of Illustrations and Color Plates; Bibliography; Index; Color Plates |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, te Amsterdam -- History.
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Zoos -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423785215 (electronic bk.) |
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9048503817 (electronic bk.) |
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9053567399 (print) |
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9781423785217 (electronic bk.) |
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9789048503810 (electronic bk.) |
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9789053567395 (print) |
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