Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Description
The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed--even encouraged--beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.
Product Details
Price
$57.50
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date
June 30, 2020
Pages
280
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.56 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822966357
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Diarmid A. Finnegan is senior lecturer in human geography at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland and coeditor of Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire and The Correspondence of John Tyndall, volume 7. His current research centers on the history of science and religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Reviews
A fascinating and engaging read.-- "Victorians Institute Journal"
A valuable contribution to the histories and geographies of science.-- "H-Net Reviews"
Fascinating and instructive.-- "Archives of Natural History"
Gives us a rich understanding not only of where but also of how Victorian science was practised . . . deserves to be read by scholars of identity, cultural geography and, especially, nineteenth-century science.-- "British Society for the History of Science"
Should be on the shelves of anyone interested in nineteenth-century science in the British Isles.-- "Isis"
A valuable contribution to the histories and geographies of science.-- "H-Net Reviews"
Fascinating and instructive.-- "Archives of Natural History"
Gives us a rich understanding not only of where but also of how Victorian science was practised . . . deserves to be read by scholars of identity, cultural geography and, especially, nineteenth-century science.-- "British Society for the History of Science"
Should be on the shelves of anyone interested in nineteenth-century science in the British Isles.-- "Isis"