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Title: Assembling the Dinosaur
Author: Lukas Rieppel
Category: Audiobook
Narrated By: Pete Cross
Duration: 09:52:24
Type: MP3
Size: 542.7 MB
Bitrate: 128 Kb/s
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Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic
discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for
vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s
largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and
triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular,
American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and
appearing in feature films. Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the
field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America’s Gilded Age.
Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with
vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using
them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory.
Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited
dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons
of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their
own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism
could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted
corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting
their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture.
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