Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.
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Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.
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VG (No dj; bookplate & few marks from previous art-library owner. ) Black buckram, 233 pp., 23 BW illus. "A follow-up and complementary volume to 'The Birth of the Museum, Pasts Beyond Memory' examines the relations between evolutionary theory, political thought and museums in Britain, the United States and Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on recent developments in social theory, science studies and visual culture studies, it creates significant new frameworks for understanding the relations between museums and society." (first page).
