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Assembling the Dinosaur : Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle / Lukas Rieppel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rieppel, Lukas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fossils--Collection and preservation--United States--History.
- Fossils.
- Dinosaurs in popular culture--United States--History.
- Dinosaurs in popular culture.
- Science museums--Public relations--United States.
- Science museums.
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
- Carnegie, Andrew.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of America's industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Prospecting for Dinosaurs
- 2. Tea with Brontosaurus
- 3. Andrew Carnegie's Diplodocus
- 4. Accounting for Dinosaurs
- 5. Exhibiting Extinction
- 6. Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life
- Conclusion Feathered Dragons
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674240346
- 0674240340
- 9780674240339
- 0674240332
- OCLC:
- 1099790911
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