Science and Whig Manners: Science and Political Style in Britain, C. 1790-1850

ISBN-13: 9781349365555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 213 str.

J. Bord

Opis

Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. Offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics.

Recenzje

'...Bord's thesis is interesting and important for the historian of science.' - Metascience

Spis treści

Preface Manners, Science and Politics The Statesman Rational Sociability Liberality The Georgic Tradition Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

JOE BORD was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he has completed a research fellowship in history. He has subsequently taught at Fordham University, and the City University of New York. He lives in New York.