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Wallace In The Field - Ethnographic Expeditions And The Rise Of Anthropology

by Victor Rafael Limeira-Dasilva

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 A man of many talents—naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and political commentator—Alfred Russel Wallace made seminal contributions to science in the nineteenth century. With Wallace in the Field, Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva unpacks the early life of one of the most beloved and famous Victorian scientific figures. Focusing on Wallace’s significant contribution to the emergence of anthropology, Limeira-DaSilva traces the peripatetic trajectory of Wallace’s field work, from his humble beginnings in the suburbs of London to his travels through the Brazilian Amazon and Asia. Challenging traditional portrayals that cast Wallace as Darwin’s sidekick or a casual ethnographer, the book demonstrates how he built a deliberate and ambitious career as a field observer of human diversity. It offers a fresh perspective on the intersections between ethnographic encounters, racial science, and knowledge production, revealing how Wallace’s pursuit of recognition helped redefine the standards of scientific authority in British anthropology.
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From Virile To Sterile - Science, Masculinity, And Modernity In Argentina, 1776-1852

by Adriana Novoa

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 As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building in Europe and the Americas. In From Virile to Sterile, Adriana Novoa analyzes the cosmopolitan citizens of this metaphysical republic—an international community of scholars and literary figures—and the first universal modern male identity it established. By the end of the eighteenth century, she reveals, men’s role in society had fundamentally changed. This "man of letters" possessed a masculinity that was learned and shareddifferent from the warrior model of the past. The modern man represented a new notion of patriotism linked to knowledge and institutions that promoted intellectual dynamism, change, and self-transformation. For a conservativism that despised radical liberalism and its science, this new masculinity was degenerate and villainous, a sign of extinction and sterility. The virile man was stable and unchanging, his authority rooted in continuity and stability. Novoa explores this complex gendering of science, modernity, and civilization in Argentina during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how a universal characterization of masculinity shaped the politics of the River Plate Viceroyalty and later the creation of the Argentine Republic.
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Science, Religion, And The Protestant Tradition - Retracing The Origins Of Conflict

by James C. Ungureanu

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 The story of the â€œconflict thesisâ€ between science and religionâ€"the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the twoâ€"is part of our modern self-understanding.
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Imperial Bodies In London - Empire, Mobility, And The Making Of British Medicine, 1880â€“1914

by Kristin Hussey

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 A postcolonial history of medicine in London. Winner of the UK Royal Historical Society's 2022 Whitfield Prize for best first monograph in the field of British and Irish History.
Styles Of Reasoning In The British Life Sciences - Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

by James Elwick

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 Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.
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From Virile To Sterile - Science, Masculinity, And Modernity In Argentina, 1776â€“1852

by Adriana Novoa

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 Novoa explores this complex gendering of science, modernity, and civilization in Argentina during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how a universal characterization of masculinity shaped the politics of the River Plate Viceroyalty and later the creation of the Argentine Republic.
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Commercial And Sublime - Popular Astronomy Lectures In Britain, 1780â€“1860

by Hsiang-Fu Huang

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 The astronomy lecturing trade in Britain experienced a theatrical turn in the early 1800s, as practitioners relied on larger and more elaborate visual aids to enhance the scenic and dramatic effects of their traveling spectacles.
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Commercial And Sublime - Popular Astronomy Lectures In Britain, 1780-1860

by Hsiang-Fu Huang

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 The astronomy lecturing trade in Britain experienced a theatrical turn in the early 1800s, as practitioners relied on larger and more elaborate visual aids to enhance the scenic and dramatic effects of their traveling spectacles. Commercial and Sublime explores this phenomenon in the long nineteenth century, a time when astronomical shows rose in popularity and the lecturing trade developed a commercial side where business, profits, and competition took center stage. Astronomy lecturing during this period, Hsiang-Fu Huang reveals, also heavily exploited the notion of the sublime, where displays and the rhetoric of awe and wonder were meant to arouse religious sentiment by pointing to the sublimity of the universe and the Creator behind it. His book explores the various practitioners, sites, curriculums, apparatus, and audiences of popular astronomy lectures, focusing specifically on those outside the scientific elite whose commercial endeavors opened up a flourishing market for various types of performances, including Lent shows in theaters, courses in learned or mechanics’ institutes, and itinerant lectures around provincial towns and in the surrounding countryside.
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Victorian Interdisciplinarity And The Sciences - Rethinking The Specialization Thesis

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 The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did emerge during the nineteenth century, the intellectual landscape was far muddier, and in many cases new forms of specialist knowledge continued to cross boundaries while integrating ideas from other areas of study. Through a history of Victorian interdisciplinarity, this volume offers a more complicated and innovative analysis of discipline formation. Harnessing the techniques of cultural and intellectual history, studies of visual culture, Victorian studies, and literary studies, contributors break out of subject-based silos, exposing the tension between the rhetorical push for specialization and the actual practice of knowledge sharing across disciplines during the nineteenth century.
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Imagining The Darwinian Revolution - Historical Narratives Of Evolution From The Nineteenth Century To The Present

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 This volume considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing on the so-called Darwinian Revolution. The very idea of the Darwinian Revolution is a historical construct devised to help explain the changing scientific and cultural landscape that was ushered in by Charles Darwin’s singular contribution to natural science. And yet, since at least the 1980s, science historians have moved away from traditional "great man" narratives to focus on the collective role that previously neglected figures have played in formative debates of evolutionary theory. Darwin, they argue, was not the driving force behind the popularization of evolution in the nineteenth century. This volume moves the conversation forward by bringing Darwin back into the frame, recognizing that while he was not the only important evolutionist, his name and image came to signify evolution itself, both in the popular imagination as well as in the work and writings of other evolutionists. Together, contributors explore how the history of evolution has been interpreted, deployed, and exploited to fashion the science behind our changing understandings of evolution from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Imagining The Darwinian Revolution From The Nineteenth Century To The Present

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 Considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations.
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Psychic Investigators - Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, And Credible Witnessing In The Late Victorian Age

by Efram Sera-Shriar

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 Examines British anthropologyâ€™s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era.
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Nature'S Entrepot - Philadelphiaâ€™S Urban Sphere And Its Environmental Thresholds

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 Philadelphia was one of America's first major cities and an international seaport. Nature's Entrepot views the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present.
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The Making Of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920 - Uniting Local, National And Global Histories Of Disease

by James F. Stark

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 From the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the banner of "anthrax."
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The Making Of British Anthropology, 1813-1871

by Efram Sera-Shriar

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 Victorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. Far from being an evolutionary dead end, nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of anthropology today.
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Astronomy In India, 1784-1876

by Joydeep Sen

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 Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics.
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Science And Societies In Frankfurt Am Main

by Ayako Sakurai

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 As it did not have a university or a centralized government, Frankfurt am Main is an ideal case study of how scientific associations - funded by private patronage for the good of the local populace - became an important centre for natural history.
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Typhoid In Uppingham - Analysis Of A Victorian Town And School In Crisis, 1875-1877

by Nigel Richardson

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 After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements.
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The Transit Of Venus Enterprise In Victorian Britain

by Jessica Ratcliff

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 In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.
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Victorian Medicine And Popular Culture

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 Explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture.
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Regionalizing Science - Placing Knowledges In Victorian England

by Simon Naylor

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 Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
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Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science And Literature, 1800-1914

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 Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies.
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The Age Of Scientific Naturalism - Tyndall And His Contemporaries

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 Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period.
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Popular Exhibitions, Science And Showmanship, 1840-1910

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 Victorian culture was characterized by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions. These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, education and leisure patterns. The essays in this collection look at exhibitions and their influence in terms of location, technology and ideology.
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