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The Menageries
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Author : James Rennie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829
The Menageries written by James Rennie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with Animal behavior categories.
The Menageries
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Author : James Rennie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
The Menageries written by James Rennie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with Apes categories.
Virtual Menageries
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Author : Jody Berland
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-04-16
Virtual Menageries written by Jody Berland and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Social Science categories.
The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation of animals on social media to the collection of exotic animals in the formative years of transcontinental exploration and expansion. By tracing previously unseen parallels across the history of exotic and digital menageries, Berland shows how and why animals came to bridge peoples, territories, and technologies in the expansion of colonial and capitalist cultures. Berland's genealogy of the virtual menagerie begins in 1414 when a ruler in Bengal sent a Kenyan giraffe to join a Chinese emperor's menagerie. It maps the beaver's role in the colonial conquest of Canada and examines the appearances of animals in early moving pictures. The menagerie is reinvented for the digital age when image and sound designers use parts or images of animals to ensure the affective promise and commercial spread of an emergent digital infrastructure. These animal images are emissaries that enliven and domesticate the ever-expanding field of mediation. Virtual Menageries offers a unique account of animals and animal images as mediators that encourage complicated emotional, economic, and aesthetic investment in changing practices of connection.
The Menageries
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Author : James Rennie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829
The Menageries written by James Rennie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with Elephants categories.
The Menageries Quadrupeds
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Author : James Rennie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829
The Menageries Quadrupeds written by James Rennie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with Animal behavior categories.
Animals In Menageries
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Author : William Swainson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
Animals In Menageries written by William Swainson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with Animal behavior categories.
Fighting Nature
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Author : Peta Tait
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-10
Fighting Nature written by Peta Tait and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-10 with Nature categories.
Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through war-like practices against other animal species. Animal shows became a stimulus for antisocial behaviour as locals taunted animals, caused fights, and even turned into violent mobs. Human societal problems were difficult to separate from issues of cruelty to animals. Apart from reflecting human capacity for fighting and aggression, and the belief in human dominance over nature, these animal performances also echoed cultural fascination with conflict, war and colonial expansion, as the grand spectacles of imperial power reinforced state authority and enhanced public displays of nationhood and nationalistic evocations of colonial empires. Fighting nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th-century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated. "Peta Tait brings to the book an impressive scholarly command of the documentary material, from which she draws a range of vivid examples and revealing analyses of human–animal confrontation in popular entertainments ... The book is written with verve and clarity, and will be of interest to a wide readership in performance studies and cultural history." Professor Jane R. Goodall, Western Sydney University Peta Tait FAHA is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University and Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong, and author of Wild and dangerous performances: animals, emotions, circus (2012).
The Georgian Menagerie
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Author : Christopher Plumb
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-26
The Georgian Menagerie written by Christopher Plumb and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with History categories.
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 menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their trade in London in this period the predecessors to the zoological societies of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded and seaborne trade flooded into London's ports, the menagerists gained access to animals from the most far-flung corners of the globe, and these strange creatures became the objects of fascination and wonder. Many aristocratic families sought to create their own private menageries with which to entertain their guests, while for the less well-heeled, touring exhibitions of exotic creatures both alive and dead satisfied their curiosity for the animal world. While many exotic creatures were treasured as a form of spectacle, others fared less well turtles went into soups and civet cats were sought after for ingredients for perfume. In this entertaining and enlightening book, Plumb introduces the many tales of exotic animals in London.
Menagerie
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Author : Caroline Grigson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-28
Menagerie written by Caroline Grigson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-28 with History categories.
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 replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and — on occasion — the downright bizarre. From Henry III's elephant at the Tower, to George IV's love affair with Britain's first giraffe and Lady Castlereagh's recalcitrant ostriches, Caroline Grigson's tour through the centuries amounts to the first detailed history of exotic animals in Britain. On the way we encounter a host of fascinating and outlandish creatures, including the first peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More's monkey, James I's cassowaries in St James's Park, and Lord Clive's zebra — which refused to mate with a donkey, until the donkey was painted with stripes. But this is not just the story of the animals themselves. It also the story of all those who came into contact with them: the people who owned them, the merchants who bought and sold them, the seamen who carried them to our shores, the naturalists who wrote about them, the artists who painted them, the itinerant showmen who worked with them, the collectors who collected them. And last but not least, it is about all those who simply came to see and wonder at them, from kings, queens, and nobles to ordinary men, women, and children, often impelled by no more than simple curiosity and a craving for novelty.
New Worlds New Animals
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Author : R. J. Hoage
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1996-05-07
New Worlds New Animals written by R. J. Hoage and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-07 with Nature categories.
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 history.