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
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
