Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin zoo [Audiobook] download free by Gary Bruce
- Listen audiobook: Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin zoo
- Author: Gary Bruce
- Release date: 2017/8/10
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780190234980
- Rating: 8.72 of 10
- Votes: 794
- Review by: Mack Brannon
- Review rating: 8.5 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/1
- Duration: 4H2M59S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, AU, FLAC, WAV, MPEG-4 ALS, WMA, MP3, MPEG4 (compression TBZ2, LZ, CAB, ALZ, RAR, TAR.XZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M26S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's 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 politicalsystems 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 capital's 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, evenpartially, a longing for a better, more tranquil world.
- Other categories, genre or collection: World War 2 Books, Zoos & Wildlife Parks, Animals & Society, European History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 43.22 USD
- Dimensions: 163x242x26mm
- Weight: 692g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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