Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926

by Steven Conn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226114929
• ISBN13: 9780226114927
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"