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Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
2025
8256 kr
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This four-volume collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. As the physical, biological, human, and social sciences were radically reshaped across the 1800's, so the prevailing understanding of scientific methodology changed with …
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Volume I: Building Philosophical Systems
Inbunden, 2025
1828 kr
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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Perhaps the most striking feature of nineteenth-century works on scientific method is the extent to which they were taken up by authors interested in writing large-scale, systemic works …
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Volume II: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution
Inbunden, 2025
1828 kr
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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science reconfigured the ways in which practitioners …
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences
Inbunden, 2025
1883 kr
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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of …
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Volume IV: Forces, Fields, and Energy: Physical Sciences
Inbunden, 2025
1828 kr
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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century begins with what was still a largely Newtonian perspective on the nature of matter and the physical world – Newtonian bodies moving through space, guided by a …
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Claire Brock
2024
9210 kr
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This four-volume collection explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. The set explores how British medical women travelled internationally to treat patients who, for reasons of religious, cultural, or social beliefs, were reluctant to seek treatment from male …
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume I: Debates
Av Claire Brock
Inbunden, 2024
2198 kr
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The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of the Great War in 1914. By covering this period, readers will be introduced to ongoing debates surrounding women in medicine, via sources which explore the possibilities for – as well as …
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume II: Medical Women in Fiction
Av Claire Brock
Inbunden, 2024
2198 kr
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As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century. This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women’s entry into the medical profession, and their …
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume III: Global Experiences
Av Claire Brock
Inbunden, 2024
2198 kr
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This volume explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. The volume considers, firstly, how especially British medical women travelled internationally to treat patients who, for reasons of religious, cultural, or social beliefs, were reluctant to seek treatment …
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume IV: Patient Perspectives
Av Claire Brock
Inbunden, 2024
2198 kr
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Vital to the acceptance of medical women was the willingness of patients – largely women and children – to be treated by them. By the end of 1914, this more usual patient base was expanded to include injured soldiers. To provide a full consideration of the medical and surgical world of this period, …
Electric Power in Victorian Britain
2025
4167 kr
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This three-volume collection of primary sources examines electric power in Victorian Britain. The first volume covers the works of those for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The second volume looks at how electric …
Electric Power in Victorian Britain
Volume I: Electric Power Imagined
Inbunden, 2025
1883 kr
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The materials in this volume cover the works of the natural philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and entertainers for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The papers, books, and experiments explore the ways in which …
Electric Power in Victorian Britain
Volume II: Electric Power in Practice
Inbunden, 2025
1883 kr
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The materials in this volume explore how the transformation of electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Outside the lecture halls and laboratories, electric power became a source for inventors, politicians, economists, and the public to explore, define, …
Electric Power in Victorian Britain
Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture
Inbunden, 2025
1883 kr
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This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or "grids" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, …
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
2023
10980 kr
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Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as …
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Sounds Experimental and Entertaining
Inbunden, 2023
2588 kr
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Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as …
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Philosophies and Epistemologies of Sound
Inbunden, 2023
2588 kr
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Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as …
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Sound in Context
Inbunden, 2023
2588 kr
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Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as …
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Sound Transformed
Inbunden, 2023
2588 kr
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Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as …
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society
2025
10838 kr
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This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and …
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society
Volume I: Weather Forecasting and Nation-State Building
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and …
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society
Volume II: Cyclones, Trade, Navigation and Society
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and …
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society
Volume III: Meteorology and Religion
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and …
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society
Volume IV: Weather, Climate and Empire
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and …
Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2026
2198 kr
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Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports readers in making sense of the material themselves to develop students’ historical sensibilities, as …
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History
Volumes I-IV
Av Ian Miller
2025
9918 kr
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This collection is a four volume set of primary sources on British food history in the long nineteenth century (c.1789-1914). It will make the compelling case that food is central to understanding all aspects of nineteenth-century Britain, as food permeates every aspect of our society, economy, …
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century
2026
8290 kr
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Egyptology saw its birth as a science during the latter part of the nineteenth century, even though Westerners had been traveling there for millennia. These volumes will present several foundational texts of the discipline in this crucial century, showing throughout each volume the slow, and not …
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
2026
8856 kr
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This is a 4-volume collection curating nineteenth-century British primary sources about pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, both of which were transformed during the course of the century.
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
Volume III: Drugs – From Plant Remedy to Pharmaceutical
Inbunden, 2026
2198 kr
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This volume will focus on the products that are the most closely associated with pharmacy and on their commodification during the course of the century. It will include material relating to the sourcing of both natural and synthetic medicines which will help to illuminate processes of drug …
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
Volume IV: World – From Corner Shop to Global Stage
Inbunden, 2026
2198 kr
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This volume with focus on the broader roles of pharmacists beyond the supply of medicines and the dispensing of prescriptions. It will cover their various roles in public health and describe their involvement in dentistry and optics. It will explore the responsiveness of pharmacists to outside …
