TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rieppel,Lukas
TI  - Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle 
SN  - 9780674240339
AV  - QE718 .R54 2019eb
U1  - 560.75 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Dinosaurs in popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Fossils
KW  - Collection and preservation
KW  - Science museums
KW  - Public relations
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Prospecting for Dinosaurs --; 2. Tea with Brontosaurus --; 3. Andrew Carnegie’s Diplodocus --; 4. Accounting for Dinosaurs --; 5. Exhibiting Extinction --; 6. Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life --; Conclusion Feathered Dragons --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Illustration Credits --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674240339
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ER  -