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Author Nieuwland, Ilja, 1970- author.

Title American dinosaur abroad : a cultural history of Carnegie's plaster Diplodocus / Ilja Nieuwland.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-308) and index.
Contents Introduction: A convoluted dinosaur -- Dinomania : giant sloths, sea snakes, and concrete contraptions -- His Majesty notices a drawing : the tradition of copying dinosaurs -- Getting Diplodocus ready for the stage : from Pittsburgh to London -- "The years of wandering" : Germany -- Visite au Diplodocus : Paris -- "Properly messy" : crouching dinosaurs, national competition, and science reform -- Diaspora : from Rio to Madrid -- Conclusion: Diplodocus after Madrid -- and after Carnegie.
Summary In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii--or Dippy, as it's known today--was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1907. Carnegie's pursuit of dinosaurs in the American West and the ensuing dinomania of the late nineteenth century coincided with his broader political ambitions to establish a lasting world peace and avoid further international conflict. An ardent philanthropist and patriot, Carnegie gifted his first plaster cast of Dippy to the British Museum at the behest of King Edward VII in 1902, an impulsive diplomatic gesture that would result in the donation of at least seven reproductions to museums across Europe and Latin America over the next decade, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Argentina, and Spain. In this largely untold history, Ilja Nieuwland explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie's prized skeleton on European culture through the dissemination, reception, and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social, political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth century.
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Subject Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 -- Natural history collections.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections.
Diplodocus carnegii -- Exhibitions -- Social aspects.
Diplodocus carnegii.
Exhibitions.
Social aspects.
Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- Political aspects.
Fossils -- Collection and preservation.
Paleontology -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Paleontology.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Political aspects.
Dinosaurs in popular culture.
Dinosaurs in popular culture.
Dinosaurs -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Dinosaurs -- Social aspects.
Dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs -- Catalogs and collections -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Catalogs.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Catalogs.
Catalogs.
Other Form: Print version: Nieuwland, Ilja, 1970- American dinosaur abroad. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019] 9780822945574 (OCoLC)1046614059
ISBN 9780822986669 (electronic book)
0822986663 (electronic book)
9780822945574
0822945576