Book ID: CBB000201531

Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (2002)

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Robbins, Louise E. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xiv + 349 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description “Reconstructs the diverse material, social, and cultural settings in which exotic animals played a role … [and] analyzes the multiple meanings French observers derived from these animals in their midst.” (from publisher's web page)


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Review Farber, Paul Lawrence (2002) Review of "Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 615). unapi

Review Åkerberg, Sofia (2003) Review of "Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris". Environmental History (p. 322). unapi

Review Lee, Paula (2005) Review of "Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 449). unapi

Review Douthwaite, Julia V. (2003) Review of "Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris". American Historical Review. unapi

Review Rothfels, Nigel (2003) Review of "Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 383). unapi

Review Holmqvist, Bosse (2003) Review of "Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris". Lychnos (pp. 336-337). unapi

Review Jones, Christine Kenyon (2003) Review of "Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris". Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (p. 269). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Schmitt, Stéphane
Crémière, Cédric
Canington, Stephanie L.
Beltrán, José
Rogers, Ethan S.
Concepts
Natural history
Human-animal relationships
Science and society
Biology
Science and culture
Museums
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
Places
France
Paris (France)
Königsberg
South Asia
Edinburgh
Latin America
Institutions
Société d'Histoire Naturelle
Société Philomathique de Paris
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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