Science and Whig Manners - Bord, Joe
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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.

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