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9780226114934

Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226114934

  • ISBN10:

    0226114937

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

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 shape America's intellectual history.

Author Biography

Steven Conn teaches History at The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

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
Notes
Index
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