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The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain

Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263266
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain written by Martin Daunton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines we now take for granted took shape. The ways in which knowledge was tested also took on a new form, with the rise of written examinations. New institutions of knowledge were created: museums were important at the start of the period, universities had become prominent by the end. Victorians needed to make sense of the sheer scale of new information, to popularize it, and at the same time to exclude ignorance and error - a role carried out by encyclopaedias and popular publications. By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our wider consideration of the complex and much debated concept of knowledge.

Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines

Author : Bernard Lightman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000124177
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines written by Bernard Lightman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines adds a crucial missing link in that history by asking and answering a series of deceptively simple questions: how did Victorians define a discipline; what factors impinged upon that definition; and how did they respond to disciplinary understanding? Structured around sections on professionalization, university curriculums, society journals, literary genres and interdisciplinarity, Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines addresses the tangled bank of disciplinarity in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences including musicology, dance, literature, and art history; classics, history, archaeology, and theology; anthropology, psychology; and biology, mathematics and physics. Chapters examine the generative forces driving disciplinary formation, and gauge its success or failure against social, cultural, political, and economic environmental pressures. No other volume has focused specifically on the origin of Victorian disciplines in order to track the birth, death, and growth of the units into which knowledge was divided in this period, and no other volume has placed such a wide array of Victorian disciplines in their cultural context.

Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain

Author : Louise Miskell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131709798X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain by : Louise Miskell

Download or read book Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain written by Louise Miskell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promotion of knowledge was a major preoccupation of the Victorian era and, beginning in 1831 with the establishment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a number of national bodies were founded which used annual, week-long meetings held each year in a different town or city as their main tool of knowledge dissemination. Historians have long recognised the power of 'cultural capital' in the competitive climate of the mid-Victorian years, as towns raced to equip themselves with libraries, newspapers, 'Lit. and Phil.' societies and reading rooms, but the staging of the great annual knowledge festivals of the period have not previously been considered in this context. The four national associations studied are the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (NAPSS), the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) and the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE), who held annual meetings in 62 different provincial towns and cities from 1831 to 1884. In this book it is contended that these meetings were as important as royal visits and major civic ceremonies in providing towns with an opportunity to promote their own status and identity. By deploying a wealth of primary source material, much of which has not been previously utilised by urban historians, this book offers a new and genuinely Britain-wide perspective on a period when comparison and competition with neighbouring places was a constant preoccupation of town leaders.

Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

Author : S. Snow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230209491
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain by : S. Snow

Download or read book Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain written by S. Snow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.

Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911

Author : Shih-Wen Chen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066049
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 written by Shih-Wen Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children’s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children’s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children’s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children’s literature.

London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859

Author : Takashi Ito
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0861933214
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859 written by Takashi Ito and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life,

Knowledge, Networks and Policy

Author : James Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317702107
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Networks and Policy written by James Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The region’ has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century – the nation state. Its influence can be seen in multiple social science disciplines and in public policy across the globe. But how was this knowledge organised and how were its concepts transmuted into public policy? This book charts the development of the academic field of Regional Studies and the application of its concepts in public policy through its learned society, the Regional Studies Association. In their modern form, learned societies often play a complementary role to universities, offering networks that operate in the spaces between and beyond universities, connecting specialised academics and knowledge and making it possible for them to have impact outside the academy. In contrast to the geographically tangible and popularly understood role of the university, contemporary learned societies are nebulous networks that transcend barriers and whose contribution is difficult to discern. However, the production and dissemination of knowledge would be stunted were it not for the learned society connecting scholars through a network of publications and events. This book traces the intellectual history of regional studies and regional science from the 1960s into the 2000s and the impact of the regional concept in public policy through the changing priorities of government in the UK and Europe. By approaching the history through the Regional Studies Association, it interrogates the role and function of the ‘learned society’ model of organisation in contemporary academia and importance as a knowledge exchange vehicle for public policy influence.

The Power of Knowledge

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300167954
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Knowledge written by Jeremy Black and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centuries and shaped the world as we know it todaydiv /DIV

Spaces of Global Knowledge

Author : Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317051726
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Global Knowledge written by Diarmid A. Finnegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical categories. This volume makes an original and compelling contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of knowledge. Given its wide geographic, disciplinary and thematic range this book will appeal to a broad readership including historical geographers and specialists in history of science and medicine, imperial history, museum studies, and book history.

British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830-1960

Author : T. G. Otte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107198852
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830-1960 written by T. G. Otte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

The Enclosure of Knowledge

Author : James D. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517985
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Enclosure of Knowledge written by James D. Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.

Victorian Literature and Finance

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199281920
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Literature and Finance written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. What emerges is a remarkable set of imaginative connections between literature and Victorian finance, including women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital.

Intoxication and Society

Author : Jonathan Herring
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137008334
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Intoxication and Society written by Jonathan Herring and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means to be human. In the tensions between 'free' and uninhibited consumption on the one hand, and the pressures of social regulation and personal responsibility on the other, they also illuminate the daily paradoxes, and sheer complexity, of living in modern Western societies. Yet this complexity, and the rich history that underpins it, is often lost in the current debates over public policy. Intoxication and Society sets out to supplement the contemporary discourse surrounding intoxication with a more nuanced appreciation of the history and nature of what is very much a multidimensional problem. It does so by employing an interdisciplinary framework that includes contributions from leading academics in law, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, neuroscience and social psychology. The result is a subtle historical and contemporary rereading of the social construction of intoxication that will provide a secure basis for analysis as society continues to respond to the problematic pleasures of intoxication.

Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910

Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317320433
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910 written by Roger Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith takes an in-depth look at the question of free will through the prism of different disciplines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916

Author : Anne R. Hanley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319324551
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916 written by Anne R. Hanley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great 'social evil', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable homes and brought terrible suffering and stigma to those afflicted. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases takes us back to an age before penicillin and the NHS, when developments in pathology, symptomology and aetiology were transforming clinical practice. This is the first book to examine systematically how doctors, nurses and midwives grappled with new ideas and laboratory-based technologies in their fight against venereal diseases in voluntary hospitals, general practice and Poor Law institutions. It opens up new perspectives on what made competent and safe medical professionals; how these standards changed over time; and how changing attitudes and expectations affected the medical authority and autonomy of different professional groups.

The British Arboretum

Author : Paul A Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317323262
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The British Arboretum written by Paul A Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums. These were fostered by a variety of factors: global trade and exploration, popularity of collecting, significance to the British economy and society, developments in science, changes in landscape gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural improvement.

Futures for English Studies

Author : Ann Hewings
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137431806
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Futures for English Studies written by Ann Hewings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futures for English Studies brings together chapters by leading writers across the curriculum area of English to investigate how the component parts of English (literature, language, and creative writing) are located institutionally in higher education and to explore the interdisciplinary prospects of a subject which spans the humanities and social sciences. Through explorations of changing foci in a variety of contexts, the book examines the value and purpose of teaching and researching English language, literature and creative writing in the twenty-first century, both within Anglophone countries and the wider world. The contributors, all practicing educators and researchers in the field, bring a wide range of perspectives to the theme of the development of the discipline, and illustrate that the strengths of English Studies as an academic subject lie not only in its traditional breadth and depth, but also in a readiness to adapt, experiment, and engage with other subjects.