Table of Contents

Foreword, by Michael H. Robinson
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I: Overviews
Reflections on Zoo history
Menageries and Zoosz to 1900
Menageries, Mataphors, and Meanings
Part II: European and Colonial Zoos
Zoos in the Family: The Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Clan and the Three Zoos of Paris
The Order of Nature: Constructing the Collections of Victorian Zoos
A Tale of Two Zoos: The Hamburg Zoological Garden and Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark
Zoos and Aquariums of Berlin
A Paradox of Purposes: Acclimatization Origins of the Melbourne Zoo
Ram Bramha Sanyal and the Establishment of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens
Part III: The American Scene
American Showmen and European Dealers: Commerce in Wild Animals in Nineteenth-Century America
The Origin and Development of American Zoological Parks to 1899
The National Zoological Park: "City of Refuge" or Zoo?
Epilogue
Appendixes
The Value of Old Photographs of Zoological Collections
The Architechture of the National Zoological Park
Notes
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Robert J. Hoage is chief of the office of public affairs for the National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. William A. Deiss is associate archivist at the Smithsonian Institution.

Reviews

This volume succeeds in presenting a balanced view of zoological park development in the last century, and has a global perspective... it is truly a fine effort of scholarship and invaluable to any person seeking a greater knowledge of the history, aspirations, and roles of zoos in Western Civilization. Quarterly Review of Biology