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

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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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Harvard University Press
0674240340 / 9780674240346
eBook (EPUB)
560.75
10/06/2019
English
352 pages
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