| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Elizabeth Hanson. Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 243. $29.95.

Whether it be the shelling and looting of Baghdad's zoo, the third largest in the Middle East, during the American war on Iraq, or the opening of the Bronx Zoo's "Tiger Mountain," a three-acre "Asian" habitat for six Siberian tigers that permits visitors to watch members of this endangered species up close through glass, the captivity and saving of wild animals has been much in the news. Elizabeth Hanson's history of the display of animals in American zoos since the 1870s provides a valuable overview of how zookeepers have defined, promoted, and balanced their missions of educating and entertaining people by capturing, exhibiting, and caring for exotic animals. Zookeeping has never been a simple cultural enterprise precisely because its practitioners have repeatedly juggled what an animal-loving public wants to see and feel with what professionals want the public to find edifying. As an international enterprise, stocking municipal zoos depended on networks of animal traders and zoo-sponsored expeditions before World War II. Today zoo-keeping is governed by environmental regulations and the protocols of NGOs, which also sponsor rescue efforts for zoo animals in war zones and campaigns to protect the 600 Siberian tigers that remain in the wild.

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