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Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented.

Museums and American Intellectual Life 18761926

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/12/2000
    ISBN13: 9780226114934, 978-0226114934
    ISBN10: 0226114937

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    Book Synopsis
    Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented.

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