Assembling the Dinosaur - Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle

Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of Americäs industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North Americäs wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lukas Rieppel is the David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. He has held fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lukas Rieppel
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780674737587
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73758-7
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 163 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch; popular science, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SCIENCE / History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, NATURE / Rocks & Minerals, ART / Museum Studies, NATURE / Fossils, Economic history, History of Science, Rocks, minerals & fossils, History of the Americas, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Rocks, minerals and fossils: general interest