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Collecting The Globe : The Salem East India Marine Society Museum /
The East India Marine Society Museum was one of the most influential collecting institutions in nineteenth-century America. From 1799 to 1867, when Salem, Massachusetts, was a premier American port and launching pad for international trade, the museum's collection developed at a nexus of global...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Public History in Historical Perspective
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "A cabinet, that every mariner may possess the history of the world"
- Origins
- "May resources from the ambition of its members continue to accomplish its design"
- A society of collectors
- "Gathered, with cost and pains, from every clime"
- A museum built by mariners, the public, and the global networks of nineteenth-century maritime trade
- Exhibition and display
- Visitor experiences at the East India Marine Society Museum
- "That thus their exploits, on the ocean wave, from age to age might still be handed down"
- A continuing legacy of inspiration.