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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 how these various museums helped to shape America's intellectual history.

"Conn is an enthusiastic advocate for his subject, an appealing thinker, an imaginative researcher, a scholar at ease with theory and with empirical evidence." --Ann Fabian, Reviews in American History

"Steven Conn's masterly study of late-nineteenth century American museums transports the reader to a strange and wonderful intellectual universe. . . . At the end of the day, Conn reminds us, objects still have the power to fascinate, attract, evoke, and, in the right context, explain." --Christopher Clarke-Hazlett, Journal of American History

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During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums were built. In this impressive 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 describes how museums gave definition to different areas of scholarship, and how they occupied a central place in America's intellectual life.

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  • Title Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
  • Author Steven Conn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 314
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 2000-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780226114934 / 0226114937
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.66 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98016850
  • Dewey Decimal Code 069.097

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Steven Conn teaches History at The Ohio State University.
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