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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Download or read book Letters from Sir Richard Burton to Sir Francis Galton written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Wright Gillham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349431
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book A Life of Sir Francis Galton written by Nicholas Wright Gillham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, the inventor of regression and correlation analysis in statistics, and the founder of the eugenics movement. Now, Nicholas Gillham paints an engaging portrait of this Victorian polymath. The book traces Galton's ancestry (he was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin and the cousin of Charles Darwin), upbringing, training as a medical apprentice, and experience as a Cambridge undergraduate. It recounts in colorful detail Galton's adventures as leader of his own expedition in Namibia. Darwin was always a strong influence on his cousin and a turning point in Galton's life was the publication of the Origin of Species. Thereafter, Galton devoted most of his life to human heredity, using then novel methods such as pedigree analysis and twin studies to argue that talent and character were inherited and that humans could be selectively bred to enhance these qualities. To this end, he founded the eugenics movement which rapidly gained momentum early in the last century. After Galton's death, however, eugenics took a more sinister path, as in the United States, where by 1913 sixteen states had involuntary sterilization laws, and in Germany, where the goal of racial purity was pushed to its horrific limit in the "final solution." Galton himself, Gillham writes, would have been appalled by the extremes to which eugenics was carried. Here then is a vibrant biography of a remarkable scientist as well as a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era.
Author : James A. Casada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sir Richard F. Burton written by James A. Casada and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas W. Gillham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195143655
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book A Life of Sir Francis Galton written by Nicholas W. Gillham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid biography of the father of eugenics is also a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era. 10 halftones & 26 line illustrations.
Author : Milo Keynes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349122068
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Sir Francis Galton, FRS written by Milo Keynes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-07-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...this is a splendid, first-class book, the definitive book on Francis Galton and his legacy. The editing has been superb...The timing of its publication is excellent in relation to the increasing interest in human genetics in all areas of the biological and behavioural sciences'.R.Plomin, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Development and Health Genetics, Pennsylvania State University Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a grandson of Erasmus Darwin, was one of the most versatile men of his time. In his twenties he won fame as an explorer. He worked at the prediction of weather, and described his discovery of the anticyclone He first became an anthropologist in 1862 when he joined the Ethnological Society. He initiated anthropometry and the measurement of human variation, and the use of photography for the analysis of differencies, or individual characteristics, in a group. He recognised the uniqueness of Finger Prints, and, in 1875, first used the records of pairs of identical twins in his researches into the laws of heredity. Besides contributions to human genetics, Galton devised the correlation coefficient, and was thus concerned with the advancement of statistics. In 1883, he coined the word eugenics by which he meant 'good in birth' and 'noble in heredity', and, in 1904, he founded the Galton Laboratory at University College, London. He was first President of the Eugenics Education Society in 1907.
Author : University College, London. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A List of the Papers and Correspondence of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) Held in the Manuscripts Room, the Library, University College, London written by University College, London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Sutton
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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J written by David C. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039483
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Highly Civilized Man written by Dane Kennedy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.
Author : Leila Koivunen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135856117
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts written by Leila Koivunen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, central Africa was, effectively, a blank canvas for Europeans, unknown and devoid of visual representations. While previous works have concentrated on exploring the stereotyped nature of printed imagery of Africa, this study examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated. Thus, the main focus of the work is not on the aesthetic value of pictures, but in the activities, interaction, and situations that gave birth to them in both Africa and Europe.
Author : Fawn McKay Brodie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393301663
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Devil Drives written by Fawn McKay Brodie and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant. . . . [Brodie's] scholarship is wide and searching, and her understanding of Burton and his wife both deep and wide. She writes with clarity and zest. The result is a first class biography of an exceptional man."--J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review
Author : Monte Reel
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307742431
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Between Man and Beast written by Monte Reel and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins—two of which were stuffed and brought on tour—and walked smack dab into the biggest scientific debate of the time: Darwin's theory of evolution. Quickly, Du Chaillu's trophies went from objects of wonder to key pieces in an all-out intellectual war. With a wide range of characters, including Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.T Barnum, Thackeray, and of course, Charles Darwin, this is a one of a kind book about a singular moment in history.
Author : Mary Doreen Wainwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to the Middle East and North Africa written by Mary Doreen Wainwright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039334455X
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton written by Mary S. Lovell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-07-17 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "extraordinary biography" (New York Times Book Review) of a brilliant pair of adventurers. Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and saw him staring after her, she decided that she would marry him. By their next meeting, Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one of the faithful, and, in an expedition to discover the source of the Nile, would soon be the first white man to see Lake Tanganyika. After being married, the Burtons traveled and experienced the world, from diplomatic postings in Brazil and Africa to hair-raising adventures in the Syrian desert. In later life Richard courted further controversy as a self-proclaimed erotologist and the translator of The Kama Sutra. Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521768896
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 18, 1870 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year leading up to the publication of Descent of Man, Darwin's first treatment of human evolution.
Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826353711
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Global West, American Frontier written by David M. Wrobel and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.
Author : William Baker
Publisher : Detroit, MI : Gale Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-century British Book-collectors and Bibliographers written by William Baker and published by Detroit, MI : Gale Research. This book was released on 1997 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic view of the book and manuscript collecting and bibliographical activity during nineteenth century Britain is presented. Subjects range from the wealthy, bibliographically knowledgeable members of the aristocrats to others who impoverished themselves and their families in their obsession. Discusses how these collections were instrumental in the advocacy of the public library movement.
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Search for the Source of the Nile written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
