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• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 22 July 2015

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

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 30 May 1998

Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 10 March 2017

This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire. Arguing that Victorians understood life and society as developing historically in

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 01 December 1998

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Invitation to the Seance1: Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria 2: Animal Magnetism Comes to London 3: Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments 4: Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime 5: The Peripatetic

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 15 April 2011

Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 30 May 2024

The nineteenth century, which saw the triumph of the idea of progress and improvement, saw also the triumph of science as a political and cultural force. In England, as science

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 30 May 2024

Presents a new perspective on Victorian scientific discoveries and inventions; includes a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales and stories; looks at why fairies and their tales were chosen as an

• Publisher : Manchester University Press
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• Release Date : 30 May 1977

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 31 July 2008

Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 30 May 1988

'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th