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.
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During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums were built. In this impressive 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 describes how museums gave definition to different areas of scholarship, and how they occupied a central place in America's intellectual life.
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Steven Conn teaches History at The Ohio State University.
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We begin with a visit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
commercial museum, naked eye science, older natural history, museum builders, museum origins, intellectual architecture, anthropological collections, fine art objects, anthropological objects, museum objects, ethnographic displays, academic anthropology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Pennsylvania Museum, South Kensington, University Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, Field Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Memorial Hall, Henry Ford, High Street, George Brown Goode, Greenfield Village, First World War, Civil War, Bureau of Information, Franklin Institute, Henry Mercer, William Pepper, Department of Commerce, Peale's Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centennial Exposition, Fairmount Park, Franz Boas New!
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We begin with a visit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
commercial museum, naked eye science, older natural history, museum builders, museum origins, intellectual architecture, anthropological collections, fine art objects, anthropological objects, museum objects, ethnographic displays, academic anthropology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Pennsylvania Museum, South Kensington, University Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, Field Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Memorial Hall, Henry Ford, High Street, George Brown Goode, Greenfield Village, First World War, Civil War, Bureau of Information, Franklin Institute, Henry Mercer, William Pepper, Department of Commerce, Peale's Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centennial Exposition, Fairmount Park, Franz Boas New!
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- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
- University of Pennsylvania (PA) (Campus History Series) by Amey A. Hutchins on 5 pages
- William Morris by Holbrook Jackson on page 178, and Back Matter
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