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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 <i>Wallace in the Field</i>, 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 <i>From Virile to Sterile</i>, 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.
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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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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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The Medical Trade Catalogue In Britain, 1870-1914

by Claire L. Jones

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 A study of the changing nature of medical professionalism through medical catalogues.
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Recreating Newton - Newtonian Biography And The Making Of Nineteenth-Century History Of Science

by Rebekah Higgitt

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 Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. Higgitt shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.
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The Science Of History In Victorian Britain - Making The Past Speak

by Ian Hesketh

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 New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology.
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Natural History Societies And Civic Culture In Victorian Scotland

by Diarmid A. Finnegan

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 Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress.
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