Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926

During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums were built....
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Author: Steven Conn
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Language: English
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Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 by Conn, Steven

Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926

€75,16

Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926

€75,16
Author: Steven Conn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Conn is an enthusiastic advocate for his subject, an appealing thinker, an imaginative researcher, a scholar at ease with theory and with empirical evidence. --Ann Fabian, Reviews in American History

Steven Conn's masterly study of late-nineteenth century American museums transports the reader to a strange and wonderful intellectual universe. . . . At the end of the day, Conn reminds us, objects still have the power to fascinate, attract, evoke, and, in the right context, explain. --Christopher Clarke-Hazlett, Journal of American History

Author: Steven Conn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 12/01/2000
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780226114934

About the Author
Steven Conn teaches History at The Ohio State University.

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