{"product_id":"defining-the-modern-museum-9781442644434","title":"Defining the Modern Museum","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShedding light on many topics of current interest, especially the commodification and globalization of museums, this study makes a lively contribution to museum studies and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McTavish's case study is a welcome addition to the literature on museums and museological theory, and will be of particular interest to scholars and students interested in gender, regional identity, and visual art.' -- Davina M. DesRoches Topia: the Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies vol 35:2016 'Defining the Modern Museum offers a new way to think about museums by emphasizing their interrelationships and relationships with other institutions...This book is recommended for historians of critical museum theory as well as for curators and historians exploring the narratives of their own institutions.' -- Paul Robertson Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents          List of Figures       Acknowledgements    Introduction   The Impossible Museum        Chapter One   Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace        Chapter Two   Learning to See: Vision, Visuality and Material Culture, 1862-1929        Chapter Three   Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940        Chapter Four   Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940        Chapter Five   Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s        Conclusions    Bibliography Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408366674263,"sku":"9781442644434","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442644434.jpg?v=1730502637","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/defining-the-modern-museum-9781442644434","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}