Human Zoos. 
The Invention of the Savage

Organised in three sections, the twelve chapters in this book take readers through the history of human zoos. With over a billion visitors coming to see tens of thousands of human exhibits, this international phenomenon which began in the 16th century reached its apogee in the first third of the 20th, accompanying the growth of empires and affecting people all around the planet as it manufactured a single, universal model of the “savage” in a kind of early version of globalisation, a model applied from Tokyo to Hamburg, from Chicago to London, from Paris to Barcelona and from Basel to Johannesburg.