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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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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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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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Imagining The Darwinian Revolution - Historical Narratives Of Evolution 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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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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Science Of Our Own - Exhibitions And The Rise Of Australian Public Science

by Peter H. Hoffenberg

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 Explores the influential work of local botanists, chemists, and geologists - William B. Clarke, Joseph Bosisto, Robert Brough Smyth, and Ferdinand Mueller - who contributed to shaping a distinctive public science in Australia during the nineteenth century.
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Geographies Of City Science - Urban Lives And Origin Debates In Late Victorian Dublin

by Tanya O'Sullivan

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 Drawing on both geography and biography, Geographies of City Science underscores the crucial role urban spaces played in the production of scientific knowledge. Each chapter explores the lives of two practitioners from one of the main religious and political traditions in Dublin (either Protestant and Unionist or Catholic and Nationalist).
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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.
Vision, Science And Literature, 1870-1920 - Ocular Horizons

by Martin Willis

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 This book explores the Victorian concept of vision across scientific and cultural forms. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles - small, large, past and future - to arrive at a Victorian conception of what vision was. Willis then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing.
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Historicizing Humans - Deep Time, Evolution, And Race In Nineteenth-Century British Sciences

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 Takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.
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Kew Observatory And The Evolution Of Victorian Science, 1840-1910

by Lee T. Macdonald

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 Explores the extraordinary story of this important scientific institution as it rose to prominence during the Victorian era. This book offers fresh new insights into key historical issues in nineteenth-century science: the patronage of science; relations between science and government; the evolution of the observatory sciences; and the origins and early years of the National Physical Laboratory.
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Science Museums In Transition - Cultures Of Display In Nineteenth-Century Britain And America

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 This edited volume explores the transformation of scientific exhibitions and museums during the nineteenth century. Contributors focus on comparative case studies across Britain and America, examining the people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge during this 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.
Typhoid In Uppingham - Analysis Of A Victorian Town And School In Crisis, 1875-1877

by Nigel Richardson

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 Explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study. This study compares the sanitary state of the community with others nearby, and Uppingham School with comparable schools of that era.
Transit Of Venus Enterprise In Victorian Britain

by Jessica Ratcliff

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 In 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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Science Of History In Victorian Britain - Making The Past Speak

by Ian Hesketh

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 Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources - monographs, lectures, correspondence - from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
Styles Of Reasoning In The British Life Sciences - Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

by James Elwick

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 Explores how the concept of 'compound individuality' brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. This book states that 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.
Science And Societies In Frankfurt Am Main

by Ayako Sakurai

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 Sakurai presents a study of how scientific societies affected the social and political life of a city. 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.
Regionalizing Science - Placing Knowledges In Victorian England

by Simon Naylor

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 Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. This book seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science.
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.
Natural History Societies And Civic Culture In Victorian Scotland

by Diarmid A. Finnegan

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 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument.
Medicine And Modernism - A Biography Of Henry Head

by L. S. Jacyna

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 An in-depth study of the English neurologist and polymath Sir Henry Head (1861-1940). Head bridged the gap between science and the arts. He was a published poet who had close links with such figures as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon. His research into the nervous system and the relationship between language and the brain broke new ground.
Medical Trade Catalogue In Britain, 1870-1914

by Claire L. Jones

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 By the late nineteenth century advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry. Drawing on over 400 medical trade catalogues Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical professionalism.
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