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

Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
ISBN-10
067473758X
ISBN-13
9780674737587
Category
Science
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2019-06-10
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Lukas Rieppel

Description

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.

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