Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1925 - Steven Conn - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226114927 - December 4, 1998
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Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1925


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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, 12 halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 4, 1998
ISBN13 9780226114927
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 310
Dimensions 160 × 235 × 26 mm   ·   590 g

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