Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 1: Foundational Texts
1st Edition
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By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
Throughout the professionalization of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, there were several debates that raged: the purpose of the pyramids, and who built them; the meaning of hieroglyphs; the styling of statues and artwork on tomb and temple walls; and the history of ancient Egypt, especially ...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 2: Travel Writing
1st Edition
By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period. It was in 1798 though that the French under Napoleon invaded Egypt not only with an army of soldiers but with an army of scholars, which...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume III: Museums
1st Edition
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By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
The earliest collections of Egyptian artifacts were those pieces taken by the Roman empire. There are more Egyptian obelisks in Rome today than there are left in Egypt. In the nineteenth century, British collections were built by the same people whose work comprises volume two. They began as ...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
Egyptology saw its birth as a science during the latter part of the nineteenth century, even though Westerners had been traveling there for millennia. These volumes will present several foundational texts of the discipline in this crucial century, showing throughout each volume the slow, and not ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Profession – From Apothecary to Pharmacist
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
August 31, 2026
This volume will focus on the professionalization of pharmacy and its separation from medicine in the mid-nineteenth century. Themes which will be covered include women and pharmacy, pharmacy education, and the emergence of pharmaceutical institutions, including ones representing pharmacists ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Volume II: Practice - From Proprietor to Company Chemist
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
August 31, 2026
This volume will focus on the products that are the most closely associated with pharmacy and on their commodification during the course of the century. It will include material relating to the sourcing of both natural and synthetic medicines which will help to illuminate processes of drug ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Volume III: Drugs – From Plant Remedy to Pharmaceutical
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
August 31, 2026
This volume will focus on the locations in which pharmacy was practised and how practice varied with location. The emphasis will be on chemists’ shops in the community and the emergence of chain pharmacies after 1880. It will also include primary sources illustrating the practice of pharmacy in ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Volume IV: World – From Corner Shop to Global Stage
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
August 31, 2026
This volume with focus on the broader roles of pharmacists beyond the supply of medicines and the dispensing of prescriptions. It will cover their various roles in public health and describe their involvement in dentistry and optics. It will explore the responsiveness of pharmacists to outside ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Anderson
August 31, 2026
This is a 4-volume collection curating nineteenth-century British primary sources about pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, both of which were transformed during the course of the century....
Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
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By Claire L. Jones
April 22, 2026
Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports readers in making sense of the material themselves to develop students’ historical sensibilities, as ...
Photography and Science in Victorian Culture
1st Edition
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By Jordan Bear
March 18, 2026
This is a volume of primary sources that speak to the relationship between photography and science in Victorian culture. As a product of experimentation, as a tool of scientific inquiry, and as a metaphor for conceptualizing the natural world, photography occupies a central position in the culture ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Electric Power Imagined
1st Edition
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By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
The materials in this volume cover the works of the natural philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and entertainers for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The papers, books, and experiments explore the ways in which ...