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Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970
Judith HameraParlor Ponds fills a gap in the growing field of animal studies by showing that the tank is an emblematic product of modernity, one using elements of exploration, technology, science, and a commitment to rigorous observation to contain anxieties spawned by industrialization, urbanization, changing gender roles, and imperial entanglements. Judith Hamera engages advertisements, images, memoirs, public aquarium programs, and enthusiast publications to show how the history of the aquarium illuminates complex cultural attitudes toward nature and domestication, science and religion, gender and alterity, and national conquest and environmental stewardship with an emphasis on the ways it illuminates American public discourse on colonial and postcolonial expansion.

- 978-0-472-07166-1 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-02810-8 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05166-3 (paper)