The Age of Mammals _ Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Constructing an Age of Mammals
Part I. Building a World of Fossils, 1700s–1840s
Chapter 1. The Cave and the Drift: Myth, Time, and Bones from the Earth
Chapter 2. Defining the Mammals: Hierarchy and Diversity in the Natural World
Chapter 3. Great and Terrible Beasts: Wonder, Accumulation, and Transmission
Chapter 4. Uncovering Siwalik and Pikermi: Colonialism and Antiquity in India and Greece
Part II. Consolidating the Age of Mammals, 1850s–1880s
Chapter 5. A Tale of Two Elephants: Fossil Mammals in Paris and London
Chapter 6. Beasts from the West: Science at a Distance in North America
Chapter 7. Narratives of the Tertiary: Time, Geology, and the Difficulties of Progress
Chapter 8. Development, Origins, and Distribution: Theory and Mystery in the History of the Mammals
Part III. Global Transformation and New Histories of Life, 1890s–1914
Chapter 9. Building and Contesting Collections: New Museums and Other Institutions
Chapter 10. The Story of the Horse: Display, Evolution, and Paleontology
Chapter 11. Ordering the Pampas and Patagonia: South America as a Zone of Innovation
Chapter 12. Lands of the Diprotodon: Fossils and the Deep Past in Australia
Chapter 13. Africa as the Source of Life: Elephants, Imperialism, and Internationalism in Egypt
Chapter 14. New Communities: The Expansion of Paleontology in the Western United States
Part IV. The End of the Age of Mammals
Chapter 15. The Coming of the Age of Man: Loss, Extinction, and Decline
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index