Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empires by Gilles Boëtsch, Charles Forsdick, Eric Deroo, Teresa Bridgeman, Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard

Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empires

Gilles Boëtsch, Charles Forsdick, Eric Deroo, Teresa Bridgeman, Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard

352 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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One of the first modern exhibitions of living humans was produced by the great American showman and charlatan P. T. Barnum who infamously introduced the public to Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker and George Washington’s supposed “mammy,” Joice H...

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