Jane P Davidson

Patrons of Paleontology

How Government Support Shaped a Science

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Produktbeschreibung

Jane P. Davidson is Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is author of The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope, A History of Paleontology Illustration, and Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of European Culture 1400-1700.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780253025715
• ISBN-10: 0253025710
• Artikelnr.: 47443158

Autorenporträt

Jane P. Davidson is Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is author of The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope, A History of Paleontology Illustration, and Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of European Culture 1400-1700.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Cost of Doing Business
1. The Beginnings of Government Support for Paleontology
2. Eighteenth-century and Early Nineteenth-century Paleontologists and
Patrons
3. Developments in Government Support for Paleontology in the United States
Between 1830 to About 1880
4. Paleontology in Mid Nineteenth-Century Surveys Outside the United States
5. Government Support for Paleontology in the Late Nineteenth Century and
the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 1880 to about 1940
Conclusion: The Chain of Paleontology
Appendix: Glossary of Prominent Patrons and Paleontologists
Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index