Carl Hagenbeck's empire of entertainments / Eric Ames.

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008]

viii, 336 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

"A McLellan book."

Introduction: Under the sign of Hagenbeck -- The business of collecting -- The living habitat -- Hagenbeck's turn to fiction -- The art of Hagenbeck's zoo -- The park and the cinema -- Conclusion: The future of nineteenth-century theme space.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-323) and index.