Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism

by Tony Bennett

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415247470
• ISBN13: 9780415247474
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.7"