An edition of The second jurassic dinosaur rush (2010)

The second jurassic dinosaur rush

museums and paleontology in America at the turn of the twentieth century

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An edition of The second jurassic dinosaur rush (2010)

The second jurassic dinosaur rush

museums and paleontology in America at the turn of the twentieth century

Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic.

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Language
English
Pages
345

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Table of Contents

Scientists wage bitter warfare
Osborn's sorry valentine
Wortman assumes charge
Most colossal animal on Earth
An overconfident start
The monster of all ages
A monkey and a parrot of a time
Fossil wonders of the west
Watch the dinosaur shrink!
Hatcher heads west
Last days in the Jurassic
Putting dinosaurs in their places
Conclusion: what's the rush?
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-317) and index.

Published in
Chicago, London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
560/.176075
Library of Congress
QE705.U6 B75 2010, QE705.U6B75 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 345 p. :
Number of pages
345

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24476739M
ISBN 10
0226074722
ISBN 13
9780226074726
LCCN
2009046342
OCLC/WorldCat
457149575

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15518177W

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