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Pages: 376
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo — a tale re
Fighting Nature
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Peta Tait
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-10 - Publisher: Sydney University Press

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Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments o
New Worlds, New Animals
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: R. J. Hoage
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-05-07 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, New Worlds, New Animals gives readers a new respect for and understanding of the role of zoos in social and cultural hi
Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: Mary Morton
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-25 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Pa
The Georgian Menagerie
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Christopher Plumb
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menageri