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Author Bennett, Tony, 1947-

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

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Museum meanings
Museum meanings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-225) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Museums -- Philosophy.
Museums -- Philosophy.
Museums -- Historiography.
Museums -- Historiography.
Museums.
Museum techniques -- Historiography.
Museum techniques.
Historiography.
Museum exhibits -- Technological innovations.
Museum exhibits -- Technological innovations.
Museum exhibits.
Evolution -- History -- 19th century.
Evolution.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Evolution -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Science -- History -- 19th century.
Science.
Science -- History -- 20th century.
Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
Colonies.
Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bennett, Tony. Pasts beyond memory. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415247462 0415247470 (DLC) 2003024482 (OCoLC)53435061
ISBN 0203647068 (electronic book)
9780203647066 (electronic book)
0415247462 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0415247470 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780415247467
9780415247474

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