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Author : Mrs. Brightwen (Eliza Elder)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eliza Brightwen written by Mrs. Brightwen (Eliza Elder) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Brightwen (Eliza Elder)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Eliza Brightwen, Naturalist & Philanthropist written by Mrs. Brightwen (Eliza Elder) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Lightman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226481174
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Victorian Popularizers of Science written by Bernard Lightman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers and journalists to interpret the larger meaning of scientific theories in terms they could understand and in ways they could appreciate. Victorian Popularizers of Science focuses on this important group of men and women who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific, influential, and interesting popularizers of the day, investigating the dramatic lecturing techniques, vivid illustrations, and accessible literary styles they used to communicate with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, their publishers, and their public, Lightman offers new insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry, the market for scientific knowledge, tensions between religion and science, and the complexities of scientific authority in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Ann B. Shteir
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656036
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Figuring it Out written by Ann B. Shteir and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science.
Author : Bernard Lightman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226481107
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Victorian Science in Context written by Bernard Lightman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social classes avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Contributions from leading scholars in history, literature, and the history of science explore questions such as: What did science mean to the Victorians? For whom was Victorian science written? What ideological messages did it convey? The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mold Victorian science—which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Selborne Magazine and "Nature Notes," the Organ of the Selborne Society .... written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary R. S. Creese
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810849792
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Ladies in the Laboratory II written by Mary R. S. Creese and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of nineteenth-century women whose journal publications are listed in the 19 volume London Royal Society's Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900, comprising an author index to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals, and other periodical works, being the major index of scientific journal literature for the period.
Author : Nicholas Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192529994
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Coastal Works written by Nicholas Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; they have been drawn to it as a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; as a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and as a dynamically interconnected ecosystem, which is at the same time the historic site of significant developments in fieldwork and natural science. This collection situates these cultures of the Atlantic edge in a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the blue humanities, and island studies, the essays challenging the reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery and exchange. These twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the archipelago from the 18th century to the present. Accessible, innovative and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important role that the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a range of methodologies to represent relationships between land, sea, and cultural work.
Author : Tessa Boase
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 0711263388
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Etta Lemon written by Tessa Boase and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds is the story of a pioneering conservationist who led the campaign against the slaughter of wild birds for extravagantly feathered hats and coaxed the world to care for birds.
Author : Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A History of British Mammals: Land mammals. 2 v written by Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pnina G. Abir-Am
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813512563
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives written by Pnina G. Abir-Am and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pioneering studies of women in science pay special attention to the mutual impact of family life and scientific career. The contributors address five key themes: historical changes in such concepts as scientific career, profession, patronage, and family; differences in "gender image" associated with various branches of science; consequences of national differences and emigration; opportunities for scientific work opened or closed by marriage; and levels of women's awareness about the role of gender in science. An international group of historians of science discuss a wide range of European and American women scientists--from early nineteenth-century English botanists to Marie Curie to the twentieth-century theoretical biologist, Dorothy Wrinch.
Author : Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton
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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of British Mammals written by Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara T. Gates
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226284468
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book In Nature's Name written by Barbara T. Gates and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some—like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits—are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter's field notes on hedgehogs, reminding us of better known stories that help set the others in context. The works contained in this volume are as varied as the women who produced them. They include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Indian Alps, poetry and fiction, and marvelous tales of nature for children. Special features of the book include a detailed chronology placing each selection in its historical and literary context; biographical sketches of each author's life and works; a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature; and over sixty illustrations. An ideal introduction to women's powerful and diverse responses to the natural world, In Nature's Name will be treasured by anyone interested in natural history, women, or Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Author : Cathy Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135355339
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of British Women written by Cathy Hartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.
Author : Mary Ellen Bellanca
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926131
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Daybooks of Discovery written by Mary Ellen Bellanca and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews ceded to a more materialist outlook informed by an explosion of factual knowledge, lovers of nature both famous and obscure began to use daily composition as a quest for information about and a celebration of their surroundings. A central site of encounter, discovery, and expression, nature diaries took part in a vigorous cultural dialogue, performing, in an era called the "golden age" of nature writing, an engaging alchemy of language, science, and art. In Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870, Mary Ellen Bellanca offers the first critical study of this genre. In looking at the diaries of Gilbert White, Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Shore, George Eliot, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as those of lesser-known figures, she explores the writers' pursuit of empirical knowledge of nature for its own sake, rather than focusing on Romantic nature philosophy or on 'ecology' as a metaphor for spiritual connectedness. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history, examining how journal writing enabled and mediated the diarist's practice as naturalist. A mélange of fact, narrative, and imaginative re-creation, the nature diary played a crucial role in literature and science in a period of burgeoning knowledge about the natural world. For students and scholars of environmental history, the history of science, ecocriticism, and Victorian studies, Daybooks of Discovery will prove an essential tool for understanding this distinct genre.
Author : Charles Seignobos
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book History of Contemporary Civilization written by Charles Seignobos and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1909 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2086 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 2086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
