Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926

Name: Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
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ISBN: 9780226114934

ISBN-10: 0226114937

ISBN-13: 9780226114934

Edition: 1998

Authors: Steven Conn

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This text argues that Americans have built their museums believing that they could collect, organise, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It shows how museums have given definition to different bodies of knowledge.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Steven Conn is associate professor of history at Ohio State University. He is the author of Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1925, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



Acknowledgments



Museums and the Late Victorian World



"Naked Eye Science": Museums and Natural History



Between Science and Art: Museums and the Development of Anthropology



The Philadelphia Commercial Museum: A Museum to Conquer the World



Objects and American History: The Museums of Henry Mercer and Henry Ford



From South Kensington to the Louvre: Art Museums and the Creation of Fine Art



1926: Of Fairs, Museums, and History


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