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Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment
Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture
Häftad, 2003
552 kr
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Joseph Banks's name is attached to various plant species around the world; he was President of the Royal Society, a Privy Councillor and adviser to the English government on a range of scientific and imperial issues. He was a driving force in the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay. Yet …
Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity
A Secular State?
Av Stephen Chavura, John Gascoigne m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society …
Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity
A Secular State?
Av Ian Tregenza, John Gascoigne m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
831 kr
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How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society …
Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity
A Secular State?
Av Ian Tregenza, John Gascoigne m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
831 kr
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How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society …
Science in the Service of Empire
Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution
Häftad, 2011
485 kr
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Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. The American, French and Industrial Revolutions unleashed …
Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment
Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution
Häftad, 2002
687 kr
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This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' …
The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia
Häftad, 2005
683 kr
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This book surveys some of the key intellectual influences in the formation of Australian society by emphasising the impact of the Enlightenment with its commitment to rational enquiry and progress - attitudes which owed much to the successes of the Scientific Revolution. The first part of the book …
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2014
1861 kr
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The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to all quarters of the earth through the spread of beliefs, the promotion of trade and the acquisition of new …
Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600–1800
Inbunden, 1999
787 kr
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This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the …
Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800
E-bok, 2024
681 kr
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This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the …
Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment
British and Global Contexts
E-bok, 2024
2978 kr
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Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement''s filiation and influence in a range of contexts. In contrast to some recently influential views it …
Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800
E-bok, 2024
681 kr
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This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the …
Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment
British and Global Contexts
E-bok, 2024
2978 kr
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Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement''s filiation and influence in a range of contexts. In contrast to some recently influential views it …
Science and the State
From the Scientific Revolution to World War II
Inbunden, 2019
1400 kr
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Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and political theory. John Gascoigne argues the …
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
E-bok, 2014
1708 kr
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The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to all quarters of the earth through the spread of beliefs, the promotion of trade and the acquisition of new …
Science and the State
From the Scientific Revolution to World War II
E-bok, 2019
426 kr
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Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and political theory. John Gascoigne argues the …
Science and the State
From the Scientific Revolution to World War II
E-bok, 2019
431 kr
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Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and political theory. John Gascoigne argues the …
Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity
A Secular State?
Av Stephen Chavura, John Gascoigne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2510 kr
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How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society …
Science and the State
From the Scientific Revolution to World War II
Häftad, 2019
365 kr
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Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and political theory. John Gascoigne argues the …
Captain Cook
Voyager Between Worlds
Inbunden, 2007
907 kr
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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages, he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture. Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, he entered the …
Captain Cook
Voyager Between Two Worlds
Häftad, 2008
442 kr
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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Gascoigne details what happened in Cook's voyages when he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific, the …
Emergence of Science in Australia and the State, 1788-1945
Inbunden, 2027
1553 kr
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This book argues that Australian science, like other aspects of Australian society, was dependent on the Australian state, and that the two developed in tandem. Key dates in establishing the three different parts of the book—1788, 1850, and 1901—correspond to watersheds in the establishment of the …
Church and State in Old and New Worlds
Av Hilary M. Carey, John Gascoigne
Inbunden, 2010
2374 kr
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Church-state relations have always been important but the need for an historical re-evaluation has been heightened by recent developments in the relations between governments and religious bodies. Drawing on a wide range of historical case-studies this book focuses particularly on the way in which …
Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment
British and Global Contexts
Inbunden, 2010
1591 kr
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Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement's filiation and influence in a range of contexts. In contrast to some recently influential views it …
