Allan Blackstock

Science, politics and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland

The Reverend William Richardson

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on newly unearthed source material, this book follows the career of clergyman William Richardsona and assesses his impact on politics, science and agriculture nationally and internationally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085185
• ISBN-10: 0719085187
• Artikelnr.: 37743742

Autorenporträt

Allan Blackstock is Reader in History at the University of Ulster

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Virtue appears like an Oak': William Richardson's family and background
2. William Richardson, popular loyalism and the politics of Protestant
Ascendancy 3. 'The scattered remnants of a diminished world': Richardson
and geology 4. The Man of Grass: Agricultural improvement and public
opinion 5. Richardson and Malthus 6. Richardson and provincial science 7.
Conclusion: Richardson's historical significance Index