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In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii--or Dippy, as it's known today--was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1907. Carnegie's pursuit of dinosaurs in the American West and the ensuing dinomania of the late nineteenth century coincided with his broader political ambitions to establish a lasting world peace and avoid further international conflict. An ardent philanthropist and patriot, Carnegie gifted his first plaster cast of Dippy to the British Museum at the behest of King Edward VII in 1902, an impulsive diplomatic gesture that would result in the donation of at least seven reproductions to museums across Europe and Latin America over the next decade, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Argentina, and Spain. In this largely untold history, Ilja Nieuwland explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie's prized skeleton on European culture through the dissemination, reception, and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social, political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth century.--
Dinosaurs in popular culture. --- Popular culture --- Carnegie, Andrew, --- Carnegie, Andrew --- Natural history collections. --- 1900-1999 --- Pennsylvania --- Europe. --- Karnegi, Ėndri︠u︡, --- 卡内基安德鲁, --- Carnegie, A. --- Carnegie, Andreas --- Carnegy, Andrew --- Unternehmer --- Lenox, Mass. --- Dunfermline --- 1835-1919 --- 25.11.1835-11.08.1919 --- Karnegi, Ėndri͡u, --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia
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Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) has long been known as a leading American industrialist, a man of great wealth and great philanthropy. What is not as well known is that he was actively involved in Anglo-American politics and tried to promote a closer relationship between his native Britain and the United States. To that end, Carnegie published Triumphant Democracy in 1886, in which he proposed the American federal republic as a model for solving Britain's unsettling problems. On the basis of his own experience, Carnegie argued that America was a much-improved Britain and that the British monarchy could best overcome its social and political turbulence by following the democratic American model. He expressed a growing belief that the antagonism between the two nations should be supplanted by rapprochement. A. S. Eisenstadt offers an in-depth analysis of Triumphant Democracy, illustrating its importance and illuminating the larger current of British-American politics between the American Revolution and World War I and the fascinating exchange about the virtues and defects of the two nations.
National characteristics, British. --- National characteristics, American. --- British national characteristics --- American national characteristics --- Carnegie, Andrew, --- Karnegi, Ėndri︠u︡, --- 卡内基安德鲁, --- Influence. --- Great Britain --- United States --- Civilization. --- Relations --- Social life and customs --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government
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Carnegie, Andrew, --- Karnegi, Ėndri︠u︡, --- 卡内基安德鲁, --- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh --- Pittsburgh. --- Pittsburgh (Pa.). --- History. --- Pittsburgh (Pa.) --- Pittsburg (Allegheny County, Pa.) --- Pgh. (Pa.) --- Dayaogeh (Pa.) --- City of Pittsburg (Allegheny County, Pa.) --- City of Pittsburgh (Pa.) --- Intellectual life --- History
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