Assembling the Dinosaur : : Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle / / Lukas Rieppel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rieppel, Lukas,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674240339; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674240339
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lukas Rieppel.

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.