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Author : Abraham Booth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368757628
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Stranger's Intellectual Guide to London, for 1839-40 written by Abraham Booth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Parker Anderson
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Desmond
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805112422
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Reign of the Beast written by Adrian Desmond and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.
Author : Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Numismatic Society, 1836/1837-1838/1839 written by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Takashi Ito
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0861933214
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)
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 At the dawn of the Victorian era, London Zoo became one of the metropolis's premier attractions. The crowds drawn to its bear pit included urban promenaders, gentlemen menagerists, Indian shipbuilders and Persian princes - CharlesDarwin himself. This book shows that the impact of the zoo's extensive collection of animals can only be understood in the context of a wide range of contemporary approaches to nature, and that it was not merely as a manifestation of British imperial culture. The author demonstrates how the early history of the zoo illuminates three important aspects of the history of nineteenth-century Britain: the politics of culture and leisure in a new public domain which included museums and art galleries; the professionalisation and popularisation of science in a consumer society; and the meanings of the animal world for a growing urban population. Weaving these threads altogether, hepresents a flexible frame of analysis to explain how the zoo was established, how it pursued its policies of animal collection, and how it responded to changing social conditions. Dr Takashi Ito is Associate Professor in Modern British History, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Author : Larry J. Schaaf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521440513
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Records of the Dawn of Photography written by Larry J. Schaaf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full facsimile of two of the most important documents in the history of photography.
Author : Royal Entomological Society of London. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Entomological Society of London written by Royal Entomological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Elwick
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981831
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences written by James Elwick and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.
Author : John Parker Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385430143
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by John Parker Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Numismatic Society written by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of The Franklin Institute written by Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Entomological Society of London
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London written by Royal Entomological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Entomological Society of London
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London written by Royal Entomological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alla Myzelev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558943
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Material Cultures, 1740?920 " written by Alla Myzelev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving notions of identity and subjectivity, spatial contexts, materiality and meaning, this collection makes a significant contribution to debates around the status and interpretation of visual and material culture. Material Cultures, 1740-1920 has four primary theoretical and historiographic lines of inquiry. The first is how concepts of otherness and difference inform, imbricate, and impose themselves on identity and the modes of acquisition as well as the objects themselves. The second concern explores the intricacies of how objects and their subjects negotiate and represent spatial narratives. The third thread attempts to unravel the ideological underpinnings of collections of individuals which inevitably and invariably rub up against the social, the institutional, and the political. Finally, at the heart of Material Cultures, 1740-1920 is an intervention moving beyond the disciplinary ethos of material culture to argue more firmly for the aesthetic, visual, and semiotic potency inseparable from any understanding of material objects integral to the lives of their collecting subjects. The collection argues that objects are semiotic conduits or signs of meanings, pleasures, and desires that are deeply subjective; more often than not, they reveal racial, gendered, and sexual identities. As the volume demonstrates through its various case studies, material and visual cultures are not as separate as our current disciplinary ethos would lead us to believe.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385618932
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Numismatic Society written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
Author : Adrian Desmond
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547527756
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Darwin's Sacred Cause written by Adrian Desmond and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “arresting” and deeply personal portrait that “confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on” (The New York Times Book Review). It’s difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, produce one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Drawing on a wealth of manuscripts, family letters, diaries, and even ships’ logs, Adrian Desmond and James Moore have restored the moral missing link to the story of Charles Darwin’s historic achievement. Nineteenth-century apologists for slavery argued that blacks and whites had originated as separate species, with whites created superior. Darwin, however, believed that the races belonged to the same human family. Slavery was therefore a sin, and abolishing it became Darwin’s sacred cause. His theory of evolution gave a common ancestor not only to all races, but to all biological life. This “masterful” book restores the missing moral core of Darwin’s evolutionary universe, providing a completely new account of how he came to his shattering theories about human origins (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It will revolutionize your view of the great naturalist. “An illuminating new book.” —Smithsonian “Compelling . . . Desmond and Moore aptly describe Darwin’s interaction with some of the thorniest social and political issues of the day.” —Wired “This exciting book is sure to create a stir.” —Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, and author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging
