Missing links : the African and American worlds of R.L. Garner, primate collector

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"Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R.L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution. Garner was a self-taught zoologist and a...

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Main Author: Rich, Jeremy (Jeremy McMaster) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012
Series:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Subjects:
Garner, R. L. > (Richard Lynch), > 1848-1920.
Primatologists > United States > Biography.
Apes > Gabon.
Apes > Collection and preservation > Gabon.
Apes > Collection and preservation > United States.
Americans > Gabon > Attitudes.
Racism > History > 19th century.
Africans > Public opinion.
Human-animal relationships > Gabon.
Gabon > History > 1839-1960.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

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