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Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 4
The Correspondence, January 1853–December 1854
Av Ian Hesketh, Efram Sera-Shriar
Inbunden, 2018
2089 kr
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The 329 letters in this volume represent a period of immense transition in John Tyndall's life. A noticeable spike in his extant correspondence during the early 1850s is linked to his expanding international network, growing reputation as a leading scientific figure in Britain and abroad, and his …
Psychic Investigators
Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age
Inbunden, 2022
781 kr
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Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He …
Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
Rethinking the Specialization Thesis
Av Bernard Lightman, Efram Sera-Shriar
Inbunden, 2024
919 kr
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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 …
Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871
Häftad, 2020
684 kr
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Victorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. But the observational practices that characterized the study of human diversity developed from the established sciences of natural history, geography and medicine. …
Historicizing Humans
Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences
Inbunden, 2018
875 kr
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With an Afterword by Theodore KoditschekA number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and …
