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Author Bruce, Gary, 1969- author

Title Through the lion gate : a history of the Berlin Zoo / Gary Bruce
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations
Contents Out from the Island of Peacocks -- To the Zoo! : Animals and Humans on Display at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Sighing of the Animals : The Berlin Zoo between Disaster, Dominance, and Conservation -- Animals among the Beasts : The Berlin Zoo under the Nazis -- The Hippo and the Panda : A Tale of two Zoos
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Zoologischer Garten (Berlin, Germany) -- History
Zoos -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
Zoos -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs
Berlin (Germany) -- History
Form Electronic book
Author EBSCOhost
ISBN 9780190234997 (electronic bk.)
0190234997 (electronic bk.)