{"product_id":"savages-and-beasts-the-birth-of-the-modern-zoo-animals-history-culture-9780801869105","title":"Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (Animals  History  Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo modern sensibilities  nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped  wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals  in at least the better zoos  wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed  not by bars  but by moats  cliffs  and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts  Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck. By the late nineteenth century  Hagenbeck had emerged as the worlds undisputed leader in the capture and transport of exotic animals. His business included procuring and exhibiting indigenous peoples in highly profitable spectacles throughout Europe and training exotic animalshumanely  Hagenbeck advertisedfor circuses around the world. When in 1907 the Hagenbeck Animal Park opened in a village near Hamburg  Germany  Hagenbeck brought together all his business interests in a revolutionary zoological park. He moved wild animals out of their cages and into \"natural landscapes\" alongside \"primitive\" peoples from Africa  Asia  the Americas  and the islands of the Pacific. Hagenbeck had invented a new way of imagining captivity: the animals and people on exhibit appeared to be living in the wilds of their native lands. By looking at Hagenbecks multiple enterprises  Savages and Beasts demonstrates how seemingly enlightened ideas about the role of zoos and the nature of animal captivity developed within the essentially tawdry business of placing exotic creatures on public display. Rothfels provides both fascinating reading and much-needed historical perspective on the nature of our relationship with the animal kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651787513909,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801869102","price":138.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801869105.jpg?v=1781840781","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/savages-and-beasts-the-birth-of-the-modern-zoo-animals-history-culture-9780801869105","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}