Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
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 ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume II: Electric Power in Practice
1st Edition
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By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
The materials in this volume explore how the transformation of electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Outside the lecture halls and laboratories, electric power became a source for inventors, politicians, economists, and the public to explore, define, ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture
1st Edition
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By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or "grids" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
This four-volume collection of primary sources examines electric power in Victorian Britain. The first volume covers 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 ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society
1st Edition
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By Aitor Anduaga
November 21, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume I: Weather Forecasting and Nation-State Building
1st Edition
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By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume II: Cyclones, Trade, Navigation and Society
1st Edition
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By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume III: Meteorology and Religion
1st Edition
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By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume IV: Weather, Climate and Empire
1st Edition
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By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volumes I-IV
1st Edition
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By Ian Miller
November 11, 2025
This collection is a four volume set of primary sources on British food history in the long nineteenth century (c.1789-1914). It will make the compelling case that food is central to understanding all aspects of nineteenth-century Britain, as food permeates every aspect of our society, economy, ...