Assembling the Dinosaur - Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle - Lukas Rieppel - Hardback Bog - Harvard University Press - 2019 -
Brand: Harvard University Press
Description
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.
