Assembling The Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, And The Making Of A Spectacle
by Lukas Rieppel /
2019 / English / PDF
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Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of Americas industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North Americas wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists.
