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Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
Steven Conn
Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
Steven Conn
Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented.
310 pages, 27 halftones
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 1, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780226114934 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 314 |
Dimensions | 157 × 229 × 20 mm · 514 g |