Useful Objects
Useful Objects
Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
Gochberg, Reed
Oxford University Press Inc
10/2021
272
Dura
Inglês
9780197553480
15 a 20 dias
544
1. Circulating Objects: Loss and Decay in the American Philosophical Society's Cabinet
2. Shadowed Silhouettes: Writing Indigenous Resistance in Early American Museums
3. American Claimants: Overwhelming Collections and Visitor Impressions at the British Museum
4. Novel Inventions: Nation and Spectacle in the U.S. Patent Office Gallery
5. Specimen Collectors: Preservation and Classification at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
1. Circulating Objects: Loss and Decay in the American Philosophical Society's Cabinet
2. Shadowed Silhouettes: Writing Indigenous Resistance in Early American Museums
3. American Claimants: Overwhelming Collections and Visitor Impressions at the British Museum
4. Novel Inventions: Nation and Spectacle in the U.S. Patent Office Gallery
5. Specimen Collectors: Preservation and Classification at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index