This volume of 11 specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, the modern British historian. The contributors, scholars from Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States, address some of the central themes in the history of 19th-century religion, including evangelicalism and the culture of the market economy, religious issues in the liberal politics of the 1830s, the radical atheist, Robert Taylor, Charles Darwin, the Victorian ideal of manliness, 19th century images of Mary Magdalene, the Jews in Victorian society, colonialism, the role of women missionaries as...

The use of the term "advanced" in the title of this book is somewhat ar bitrary and very much relative with respect to time. Many techniques which were considered at the "cutting edge" of ultrastructural methodology just a few years ago are now rou tin ely used in numerous laboratories. One could cite freeze-fracture, cryothin sectioning, or indeed most of the field of scan ning electron microscopy as concrete examples. Thus the use of the term "ad vanced techniques" must be interpreted with regard to the present state of the art, and is useful only in informing the potential reader that this...

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