Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle by Lukas Rieppel
English | June 10th, 2019 | ISBN: 067473758X | 336 pages | EPUB | 45.89 MB
English | June 10th, 2019 | ISBN: 067473758X | 336 pages | EPUB | 45.89 MB
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.