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Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926

Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926( )
Author: Conn, Steven
ISBN:978-0-226-11493-4
Publication Date:Dec 2000
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $32.00
Book Description:

During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums were built. In this original and daring study, Steven Conn argues that Americans, endowed with the belief that knowledge resided in objects themselves, built these institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. Conn discovers how museums gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how these various museums helped to...
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Book Details
Pages:314
Detailed Subjects: History / United States / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.628 x 0.901 x 0.074 Inches
Book Weight:1.016 Pounds



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