Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226114929
ISBN13:9780226114927
Release Date:December 1998
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:314 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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