Science and culture for members only the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mehos, Donna C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2006, ©2006
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Nation and nature in middle-class culture
  • Structuring a new generation's scientific society
  • Private science and the public interest
  • Internationalizing nationalist science
  • Science joins cultural life
  • Science, colonial expansion, and national identity
  • Members of the Artis Board of Directors, 1838-1870