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Assembling the Dinosaur : Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
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Title
Assembling the Dinosaur : Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle / Lukas Rieppel.
ISBN
9780674240339
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (352 p.)
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Notes
In English.
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Summary
Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of America's industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Prospecting for Dinosaurs
2. Tea with Brontosaurus
3. Andrew Carnegie's Diplodocus
4. Accounting for Dinosaurs
5. Exhibiting Extinction
6. Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life
Conclusion Feathered Dragons
Notes
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index
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