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  • The 'Creed of Science' in Victorian England

    by Roy M. MacLeod ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    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 and its methods claimed privilege and space, its language acquired the vocabulary of religion. The new ’creed’ of science embraced what John Tyndall called the ’scientific movement’; it was, in the language of T.H. Huxley, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian England

    by Roy M. MacLeod ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This book comprises nine essays, selected from Roy MacLeod's work on the social history of Victorian science, and is concerned with the analysis of science as a responsibility and opportunity for 19th-century statecraft. It illuminates the origins of environmental regulation, the creation of scientific inspectorates, the reform of scientific institutions, and the association of government with the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Science, History and Social Activism

    A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn

    Edited by Roy M. MacLeod, Garland E. Allen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    "To earn a degree, every doctoral candidate should go out to Harvard Square, find an audience, and explain his [or her] dissertation". Everett Mendelsohn's worldly advice to successive generations of students, whether apocryphal or real, has for over forty years spoken both to the essence of his scholarship, and to the role of the scholar. Possibly no one has done more to establish the history of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • For Science King & Country

    The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley

    by Roy MacLeod, Russell Egdell, Elizabeth Bruton ...
    Killed in action at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915, aged just twenty-seven, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was widely regarded as the most promising British physicist of his generation. His pioneering measurements of X-ray spectra provided a firm basis for the concept of atomic number and re-cast the periodic table of the elements into its modern form. Had he survived, he seemed ... Read more

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  • Archibald Liversidge, FRS

    Imperial Science under the Southern Cross

    by Roy MacLeod ...
    When Archibald Liversidge first arrived at Sydney University in 1872 as reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory he had about ten students and two rooms in the main building. In 1874 he became professor of geology and mineralogy and by 1879 he had persuaded the senate to open a faculty of science. He became its first dean in 1882. In 1880 he visited Europe as a trustee of the Australian ... Read more

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  • Disease, Medicine and Empire

    Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion

    Edited by Roy Macleod, Milton J Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
    Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion – ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

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  • A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?

    England 1783-1846

    by Boyd Hilton ...
    Series series New Oxford History of England
    This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the 'first industrial revolution'. In the ... Read more

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  • The Irish in the Victorian City

    Edited by Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions.This book will be of interested to students of ... Read more

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  • Michael Faraday

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Frank A.J.L James ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the 'father' of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives. This Very Short Introduction dispels the myth that Faraday was an experimental genius ... Read more

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  • The Scottish Enlightenment and Early Victorian English Society

    by Anand C. Chitnis ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Scotland
    Originally published in 1986, this book creates a vivid portrait of the interaction of Scottish ideas and early Victorian English society over 50 years, illuminated by detail and substantial in its range. The book delineates certain ideas of the so-called Scottish Enlightenment and the education that purveyed them. It considers those who taught and received that learning and how it was taken to ... Read more

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    England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

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