Constructing the Zoo: Science, Society, and Animal Nature at the Paris Menagerie, 1794-1848

巴黎自然历史博物馆建于法国大革命高峰期，坐落于世界上最重要的自然历史研究机构，其构思不仅具有巨大的科学潜力，而且具有巨大的社会、政治和道德潜力。这段动物园存在前五十年的历史旨在阐明几个相关主题：(1)动物园最初设想的功能，以及这些功能是如何实现、修订或重新制定的；(2)动物园所包括的动物及其如何影响对动物本性的科学和大众理解；(3)活动物在法国动物学和博物馆生活中所扮演的有问题的角色；(4)Cuvier对动物园的动物行为进行研究所显示的科学研究实践的特点。

Founded at the height of the French Revolution, situated at the world's premier institution for the study of natural history, the menagerie of the Museum D'Histoire Naturelle in Paris was conceived to have not only great scientific potential but also significant social, political and moral potential. This history of the first fifty years of the menagerie's existence aims to illuminate several related topics: (1) the functions originally conceived for the menagerie, and how these functions were realized, revised or reformulated; (2) the animals included in the menagerie and how they influenced scientific and popular understanding of animal nature; (3) the problematic role living animals played in French zoology and in the life of the Museum; (4) the character of scientific research practice as displayed in the studies of animal behavior conducted at the menagerie by Cuvier.