Culture and class in English public museums, 1850-1914 / Kate Hill.
Culture and class in English public museums, 1850-1914 / Kate Hill.
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Publisher
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2005.
Date
2005.
Call Numbers
N069.0941/8
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
1. Introduction : interpreting museums -- 2. Negotiating the new urban environment -- 3. The public museum in the nineteenth century -- 4. The social characteristics of municipal museums -- 5. Reading the objects -- 6. Decoding the displays and layout -- 7. Consuming the museum : museum visitors --...
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Publisher
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2005.
Series
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Vermont
Date Published
2005.
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Summary
"This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though, it is about the stabilization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. Public museums were an important factor in constructing the identity and authority...
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Culture and class in English public museums, 1850-1914 / Kate Hill.
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Historical urban studies series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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Call Numbers
N069.0941/8
Record Identifier
74VKdBVAevx3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdBVAevx3
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ISBN
0754604322 (alk. paper)
9780754604327 (alk. paper)
DDC
069.0941
MMS ID
991020089329702626
