David Todd is associate curator emeritus and former conservator of timekeeping at the National Museum of American History

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The images chosen to accompany the text are of excellent quality

Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum offers a birds-eye view of their renegotiation of a legacy of the European Enlightenment to serve twenty-first-century populations across the globe

Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art back to school David Todd is associate curatorThough known as the Danish Golden Age, nineteenth century Denmark was one of the most tumultuous periods in the nation's historyfrom the disastrous siege of Copenhagen and the collapse of Denmark's monarchy to the swelling tide of nationalism that eventually engulfed all of Europe. This volume places artists at the center of Denmark's dramatic cultural, political, and philosophical transformation by bringing together 90 drawings, paintings, and oil