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Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 Paperback / softback - 2000
by Steven Conn
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- Title Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
- Author Steven Conn
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition New
- Pages 314
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2000-12-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780226114934
- ISBN 9780226114934 / 0226114937
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.66 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98016850
- Dewey Decimal Code 069.097
From the rear cover
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.