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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821983303321

Autore

Bennett Tony <1947, >

Titolo

Pasts beyond memory : evolution, museums, colonialism / / Tony Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-53910-X

0-203-68663-2

1-134-53911-8

1-280-07956-8

9786610079568

0-203-64706-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Museum meanings

Disciplina

069/.01

Soggetti

Museums - Philosophy

Museums - Historiography

Museum techniques - Historiography

Museum exhibits - Technological innovations

Evolution - History - 19th century

Evolution - History - 20th century

Science - History - 19th century

Science - History - 20th century

Colonies - History - 19th century

Colonies - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dead circuses: expertise, exhibition, government; The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences; Reassembling the museum; The connective tissue of civilisation; Selective memory: racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History; Evolutionary ground zero: colonialism and the fold of memory; Words, things and vision: evolution 'at a glance'; Postscript: slow modernity; Notes; References; Index;



Sommario/riassunto

This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.