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Ancient Marbles To American Shores: Classical Archaeology In The United States
by Dyson, Stephen L
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/Good+ (rubbing & crease to spine top. light wear to boards & corners. dustjacket has coffee-like staining to lower area & upp
- ISBN 10
- 0812234464
- ISBN 13
- 9780812234466
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Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Hardcover. VG/Good+ (rubbing & crease to spine top. light wear to boards & corners. dustjacket has coffee-like staining to lower area & upper edge; light wear to edges, corners & spine ends). brown cloth boards w/ stylized, white spine printing. 323 pgs w/ select bw illustrations. grey illustrated dustjacket w/ blue printing. "In Ancient Marbles to American Shores, Stephen L. Dyson uncovers the history of classical archaeology in the United States by exploring the people and programs that gave birth to archaeology as a discipline in this country. He puts aside the common formula of chronicling great digs, great discoveries, and great men in favor of a cultural, ideological, and institutional history of the subject. The book explores the ways American contact with the monuments of Greece and Rome affected the national consciousness. It discusses how the spread of classical style laid the groundwork for the development of the discipline after the Civil War and examines the period before World War I, when most of the institutions that led to the establishment of the discipline, as well as the first generation of American classical archaeologists, were created. It looks at the role classical archaeology played in the development of the American art museum since the later nineteenth century and considers changes in American classical archaeology from World War II to the mid-1970s."--Amazon.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
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- Title
- Ancient Marbles To American Shores: Classical Archaeology In The United States
- Author
- Dyson, Stephen L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/Good+ (rubbing & crease to spine top. light wear to boards & corners. dustjacket has coffee-like staining to lower area & upp
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0812234464
- ISBN 13
- 9780812234466
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Archaeology, Classical Archaeology ; Classical Archaeology ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology;
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