Bruce Gary Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo 9780190234980

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Автор: Bruce Gary
Название: Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo
Перевод названия: Брюс Гери: Через Львиные ворота. История Берлинского зоопарка
ISBN: 9780190234980
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Классификация:

История Европы

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Вторая мировая война

Животные и общество

Зоопарки и заповедники

ISBN-10: 0190234989
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.69 кг.
Дата издания: 01.08.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 16 illus.
Размер: 166 x 242 x 28
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: A history of the berlin zoo
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the wars end, Berliners had already resurrected it, reopening its gates and creating a symbol of endurance in the heart of a shattered city. As this episode shows, the Berlin zoo
offers one of the most unusual--yet utterly compelling--lenses through which to view German history. This enormously popular attraction closely mirrored each of the political systems under which it existed: the authoritarian monarchy of the kaiser, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and the
post-1945 democratic and communist states.

Gary Bruce provides the first English-language history of the Berlin zoo, from its founding in 1844 until the 1990 unification of the West Berlin and East Berlin zoos. At the center of the capitals social life, the Berlin zoo helped to shape German views not only of the animal world but also of the
human world for more than 150 years. Given its enormous reach, the German government used the zoo to spread its political message, from the ethnographic display of Africans, Inuit, and other exotic peoples in the late nineteenth century to the Nazis bizarre attempts to breed back long-extinct
European cattle.

By exploring the intersection of zoology, politics, and leisure, Bruce shows why the Berlin zoo was the most beloved institution in Germany for so long: it allowed people to dream of another place, far away from an often grim reality. It is not purely coincidence that the profound connection of
Berliners to their zoo intensified through the bloody twentieth century. Its exotic, iconic animals--including Rostom the elephant, Knautschke the hippo, and Evi the sun bear--seemed to satisfy, even partially, a longing for a better, more tranquil world.

Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo, Bruce Gary