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Displays of power : controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation / Steven C. Dubin ; with a new afterword

by Steven Dubin

This study analyses controversial United States museum exhibitions of the 1990s, examining how public disputes over history, culture, and representation reflected broader societal struggles to redefine national identity at the end of the twentieth century.

Accession 1795 ISBN 0814718906 Publisher New York University Press
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