ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |11 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|28 pages
The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences
chapter 3|21 pages
Reassembling the museum
chapter 4|29 pages
The connective tissue of civilisation
chapter 5|22 pages
Selective memory
Racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History
