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Pasts beyond memory : evolution museums colonialism / Tony Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Tony, 1947-
- Series:
- Museum meanings.
- Museum meanings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Philosophy.
- Museums.
- Museums--Historiography.
- Museum techniques--Historiography.
- Museum techniques.
- Museum exhibits--Technological innovations.
- Museum exhibits.
- Evolution--History--19th century.
- Evolution.
- Evolution--History--20th century.
- Science--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Science--History--20th century.
- Colonies--History--19th century.
- Colonies.
- Colonies--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dead circuses: expertise, exhibition, government; The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences; Reassembling the museum; The connective tissue of civilisation; Selective memory: racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History; Evolutionary ground zero: colonialism and the fold of memory; Words, things and vision: evolution 'at a glance'; Postscript: slow modernity; Notes; References; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-53910-X
- 0-203-68663-2
- 1-134-53911-8
- 1-280-07956-8
- 9786610079568
- 0-203-64706-8
- 9780203647066
- OCLC:
- 57175565
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