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Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo de Gary Bruce

Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo

Autor Gary Bruce
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2022

Remarcăm în Through the Lion Gate o metodologie riguroasă care transformă o instituție de loisir într-un laborator de analiză a istoriei germane moderne. Organizat cronologic, materialul explorează modul în care Grădina Zoologică din Berlin a oglindit transformările politice radicale, de la autoritarismul imperial la democrația contemporană, trecând prin perioadele întunecate ale național-socialismului și divizării Războiului Rece. Apreciem modul în care Gary Bruce nu se limitează la o istorie a captivității animale, ci investighează intersecția dintre zoologie și ideologie, documentând episoade precum expozițiile „exotice” umane sau politizarea biodiversității sub regimul nazist.

Stilul narativ este precis și ancorat în cercetare arhivistică, oferind portrete detaliate ale directorilor și furnizorilor de animale care au navigat condiții politice volatile. Comparabil cu World War Zoos de John M. Kinder în ceea ce privește rigoarea documentării impactului conflictelor armate asupra menageriilor, volumul de față este actualizat pentru contextul specific al identității naționale germane, oferind o perspectivă mai largă asupra unificării din 1990. Această lucrare completează opera anterioară a lui Gary Bruce, The Firm; dacă acolo autorul analiza mecanismele de control social prin intermediul poliției politice Stasi, în Through the Lion Gate acesta investighează o formă diferită de influență statală: utilizarea spațiului public și a naturii ca instrumente de propagandă și simboluri ale anduranței naționale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197617236
ISBN-10: 0197617239
Pagini: 316
Ilustrații: 16 illus.
Dimensiuni: 229 x 150 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie culturală și politică. Veți descoperi cum o grădină zoologică poate deveni un simbol al supraviețuirii unui oraș distrus de război. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum ideologiile modelează nu doar societatea umană, ci și relația noastră cu lumea animală, oferind o perspectivă inedită asupra Berlinului, de la fondare până la căderea Zidului.

Despre autor

Gary Bruce este un istoric respectat, specializat în istoria modernă a Germaniei și a Europei Centrale. Expertiza sa în mecanismele statului totalitar a fost consolidată prin lucrarea sa de referință The Firm, o analiză exhaustivă a Ministerului Securității Statului (Stasi) din Germania de Est, bazată pe documente desecretizate și interviuri directe. În Through the Lion Gate, publicată de Oxford University Press, Bruce își extinde aria de cercetare către istoria socială și culturală, fiind primul autor care oferă publicului anglofon o istorie completă a celei mai faimoase instituții zoologice germane, integrând-o magistral în contextul politic al secolelor XIX și XX.

Descriere

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. The Berlin zoo therefore 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 political systems under which it existed: the authoritarian monarchy of the kaiser, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and the post-1945 democratic and communist states.In Through the Lion Gate, 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 "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, even partially, a longing for a better, more tranquil world.

Recenzii

this book certainly contributes to deepening our understanding of zoos and their varied histories. Bruce's study is worth reading not only for historians of modern and contemporary Germany, but also for zoo scholars and those more broadly interested in the theme of nature and modernity.
Gary Bruce is certainly a captivating storyteller who keeps the reader interested from beginning to end. The book is geared toward a general audience interested in urban history or the cultural history of zoological gardens. It will also make for enticing reading for undergraduate and beginning graduate students. ... this is surely a highly readable book that adds to our knowledge of zoos as well as to the history of Berlin in the modern period.
Bruce uncovers the many sinister sides of the zoo's history and the immense challenges during wartime.
With Through the Lion Gate, the Canadian historian Gary Bruce has written the first comprehensive history of Germany's oldest and arguably most prestigious zoo in English.
[Bruce] provides not only an ambitiously researched, convincingly written, and detailed history of the Berlin Zoological Garden, but an insightful study of Berlin and its people....Recommended.
[A] thoroughly engaging history of the zoo's development through time. What makes it so fascinating is that the story of the zoo is equally telling about contemporary society and politics.
With Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo, historian Gary Bruce (The Firm) delivers a fascinating historical account of Berliners through the lens of their beloved zoo .Bruce's engaging narrative is complemented with photos of Bobby, Knut and other beloved animals; the Inuit and Nubian tribes; and the beautiful pagoda-style zoo architecture.
Gary Bruce's lively book tells the story of the Berlin Zoo from its origins to the present. He explains its popularity but does not neglect the darker side of its history
Gary Bruce has compellingly chronicled the history over the two centuries of one of the most important European zoos. His narrative evokes both the human and the non-human participants in that history. Perhaps its greatest strength is that he does not present the Berlin zoo as an isolated institution. On the contrary, he interweaves his account of the zoo's internal affairs with the larger cultural and political vicissitudes experienced by the city of Berlin and by the larger German society.
In this fascinating account, based on meticulous research, Gary Bruce has uncovered the ways in which the Berlin Zoo, a favorite rendezvous for Berliners, adapted to the ideology of the political regimes that followed its foundation in 1844. We see people from far-flung regions being exhibited at the zoo as ethnographic specimens; we learn how under the Nazis its scientific work was manipulated to add credence to the regime's racial policies, and how Berliners recreated their beloved zoo after its almost total destruction by Allied bombing during World War II. So iconic a symbol was the zoo that with the division of the city during the Cold War, a rival, the Tierpark, was set up in East Berlin, intended not only as a place of recreation but also to reinforce communist ideology.
Through the Lion Gate is an enjoyable and interesting book and a work of admirable historical skill that can be appreciated by a broad readership.
Intriguing historical personalities emerge from Bruce's profiles of animal suppliers and zoo directors struggling to maintain the institution under volatile political conditions.

Notă biografică

Gary Bruce is Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. He has published widely on modern German history, including most recently The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi.