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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Abstract:</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">During the second
half of the 19th century, the United States</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">transitioned from a fractious young republic into the world’s largest</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">producer of goods and services. By the eve of WWI, its industrial</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">output exceeded that of France, England, and Germany combined. At the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">same time, paleontologists were unearthing some of the largest and</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">most spectacular fossils anyone had ever seen in the American west:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">dinosaurs. Because they were widely heralded as having been larger,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">fiercer, and more abundant than prehistoric animals from Europe,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">American dinosaurs became a favorite among the nation's wealthy elite.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Moreover, their origins in the deep past meant that dinosaurs were</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">widely associated with evolutionary theory, including the conventional</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">notion that struggle was at the root of progress. At a time of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">considerable labor unrest, industrial capitalists like Andrew Carnegie</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">thus turned to dinosaur paleontology as a means to help naturalize a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">social order that was becoming increasingly stratified. Finally, it</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">did not hurt that America’s best fossils hailed from places like</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. This is precisely where most of the raw</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">materials consumed by its factories could also be found. As they</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">became symbols of America's economic might and power, dinosaurs from</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">the American west reveal a great deal about the culture of capitalism</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.</span></p>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma"><b style="font-size:16px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Biography:</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Lukas
Rieppel works at the intersection of the history of science and the history of capitalism, focusing especially on the life sciences in 19th and 20th century America. He is currently working on a book that traces how dinosaurs became a symbol of American economic
might and power during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Entitled "Assembling the Dinosaur: Money, Museums, and American Culture, 1870 -1930," this project uses the history of paleontology as a means to examine how the ideals, norms, and practices of modern
capitalism shaped the way scientific knowledge was made, certified, and distributed. Lukas currently serves as a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University, jointly appointed by the History Department and the Science in Human Culture Program. Before
coming to Chicago, Lukas completed a PhD in the History of Science at Harvard. During his time in Cambridge, he also completed a Master’s degree in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, studying the population genetics of a hyper-diverse Lycaenid butterfly
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