Dorinda Outram

Georges Cuvier

Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1984, examines the lifetime of Georges Cuvier, and in his constant and varying struggles to retain his position both as a politician and as a leading naturalist we find displayed almost all of the political tensions of Restoration France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781032126272
• ISBN-10: 1032126272
• Artikelnr.: 69948705

Autorenporträt

Dorinda Outram

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Cosmopolitan Province 2. Youth, Revolution and Vocation 3. The
Conquest of the City 4. Problems and Opportunities of the Empire: Science
and the Imperial University 5. The Restoration and the Crisis of Patronage
6. Controversy, Authority and the Market: Lamarck, Gall and
Naturphilosophie 7. Geology, History and the Shaping of a Self-Image 8.
Families, Friends and Institutions: the Paris Museum of Natural History 9.
Patronage and the Post-Revolutionary Elite: Enquiry and Conclusion