Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo
Autor Gary Bruceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197617236
ISBN-10: 0197617239
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16 illus.
Dimensiuni: 229 x 150 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197617239
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16 illus.
Dimensiuni: 229 x 150 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
this book certainly contributes to deepening our understanding of zoos and their varied histories. Bruce's study is worth reading not only for historians of modern and contemporary Germany, but also for zoo scholars and those more broadly interested in the theme of nature and modernity.
Gary Bruce is certainly a captivating storyteller who keeps the reader interested from beginning to end. The book is geared toward a general audience interested in urban history or the cultural history of zoological gardens. It will also make for enticing reading for undergraduate and beginning graduate students. ... this is surely a highly readable book that adds to our knowledge of zoos as well as to the history of Berlin in the modern period.
Bruce uncovers the many sinister sides of the zoo's history and the immense challenges during wartime.
With Through the Lion Gate, the Canadian historian Gary Bruce has written the first comprehensive history of Germany's oldest and arguably most prestigious zoo in English.
[Bruce] provides not only an ambitiously researched, convincingly written, and detailed history of the Berlin Zoological Garden, but an insightful study of Berlin and its people....Recommended.
[A] thoroughly engaging history of the zoo's development through time. What makes it so fascinating is that the story of the zoo is equally telling about contemporary society and politics.
With Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo, historian Gary Bruce (The Firm) delivers a fascinating historical account of Berliners through the lens of their beloved zoo .Bruce's engaging narrative is complemented with photos of Bobby, Knut and other beloved animals; the Inuit and Nubian tribes; and the beautiful pagoda-style zoo architecture.
Gary Bruce's lively book tells the story of the Berlin Zoo from its origins to the present. He explains its popularity but does not neglect the darker side of its history
Gary Bruce has compellingly chronicled the history over the two centuries of one of the most important European zoos. His narrative evokes both the human and the non-human participants in that history. Perhaps its greatest strength is that he does not present the Berlin zoo as an isolated institution. On the contrary, he interweaves his account of the zoo's internal affairs with the larger cultural and political vicissitudes experienced by the city of Berlin and by the larger German society.
In this fascinating account, based on meticulous research, Gary Bruce has uncovered the ways in which the Berlin Zoo, a favorite rendezvous for Berliners, adapted to the ideology of the political regimes that followed its foundation in 1844. We see people from far-flung regions being exhibited at the zoo as ethnographic specimens; we learn how under the Nazis its scientific work was manipulated to add credence to the regime's racial policies, and how Berliners recreated their beloved zoo after its almost total destruction by Allied bombing during World War II. So iconic a symbol was the zoo that with the division of the city during the Cold War, a rival, the Tierpark, was set up in East Berlin, intended not only as a place of recreation but also to reinforce communist ideology.
Through the Lion Gate is an enjoyable and interesting book and a work of admirable historical skill that can be appreciated by a broad readership.
Intriguing historical personalities emerge from Bruce's profiles of animal suppliers and zoo directors struggling to maintain the institution under volatile political conditions.
Gary Bruce is certainly a captivating storyteller who keeps the reader interested from beginning to end. The book is geared toward a general audience interested in urban history or the cultural history of zoological gardens. It will also make for enticing reading for undergraduate and beginning graduate students. ... this is surely a highly readable book that adds to our knowledge of zoos as well as to the history of Berlin in the modern period.
Bruce uncovers the many sinister sides of the zoo's history and the immense challenges during wartime.
With Through the Lion Gate, the Canadian historian Gary Bruce has written the first comprehensive history of Germany's oldest and arguably most prestigious zoo in English.
[Bruce] provides not only an ambitiously researched, convincingly written, and detailed history of the Berlin Zoological Garden, but an insightful study of Berlin and its people....Recommended.
[A] thoroughly engaging history of the zoo's development through time. What makes it so fascinating is that the story of the zoo is equally telling about contemporary society and politics.
With Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo, historian Gary Bruce (The Firm) delivers a fascinating historical account of Berliners through the lens of their beloved zoo .Bruce's engaging narrative is complemented with photos of Bobby, Knut and other beloved animals; the Inuit and Nubian tribes; and the beautiful pagoda-style zoo architecture.
Gary Bruce's lively book tells the story of the Berlin Zoo from its origins to the present. He explains its popularity but does not neglect the darker side of its history
Gary Bruce has compellingly chronicled the history over the two centuries of one of the most important European zoos. His narrative evokes both the human and the non-human participants in that history. Perhaps its greatest strength is that he does not present the Berlin zoo as an isolated institution. On the contrary, he interweaves his account of the zoo's internal affairs with the larger cultural and political vicissitudes experienced by the city of Berlin and by the larger German society.
In this fascinating account, based on meticulous research, Gary Bruce has uncovered the ways in which the Berlin Zoo, a favorite rendezvous for Berliners, adapted to the ideology of the political regimes that followed its foundation in 1844. We see people from far-flung regions being exhibited at the zoo as ethnographic specimens; we learn how under the Nazis its scientific work was manipulated to add credence to the regime's racial policies, and how Berliners recreated their beloved zoo after its almost total destruction by Allied bombing during World War II. So iconic a symbol was the zoo that with the division of the city during the Cold War, a rival, the Tierpark, was set up in East Berlin, intended not only as a place of recreation but also to reinforce communist ideology.
Through the Lion Gate is an enjoyable and interesting book and a work of admirable historical skill that can be appreciated by a broad readership.
Intriguing historical personalities emerge from Bruce's profiles of animal suppliers and zoo directors struggling to maintain the institution under volatile political conditions.
Notă biografică
Gary Bruce is Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. He has published widely on modern German history, including most recently The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi.