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651683
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Mehos, Donna Christine
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Science and culture for members only : : the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century /\ Donna C. Mehos
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam :: Amsterdam University Press,, ©2006
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1 online resource (208 pages) :: illustrations (some color)
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1423785215
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: 9781423785217
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: 9789053567395
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: 9053567399
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: 9789048503810
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: 9048503817
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1280959118
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9781280959110
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Nation and Nature in Middle-Class Culture; Chapter 1: Structuring a New Generation's Scientific Society; Chapter 2: Private Science and the Public Interest; Chapter 3: Internationalizing Nationalist Science; Chapter 4: Science Joins Cultural Life; Conclusion: Science, Colonial Expansion, and National Identity; Appendix: Members of the Artis Board of Directors, 1838-1870; Notes; List of Illustrations and Color Plates; Bibliography; Index; Color Plates
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| Abstract
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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
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Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, te Amsterdam-- History
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Zoos-- Netherlands-- Amsterdam-- History-- 19th century
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