Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… of spectatorship. Georgian naturalists initially believed that zebras might be tameable and be trained to pull the carriages of the rich around London. Such a sociable function of the zebra, associated to the Englightment dream of …
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