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Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

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Electric Power in Victorian Britain Volume II: Electric Power in Practice

Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume II: Electric Power in Practice

1st Edition

Edited 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

Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society

1st Edition

Edited 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

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume I: Weather Forecasting and Nation-State Building

1st Edition

Edited 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

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume II: Cyclones, Trade, Navigation and Society

1st Edition

Edited 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

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume III: Meteorology and Religion

1st Edition

Edited 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

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume IV: Weather, Climate and Empire

1st Edition

Edited 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

Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volumes I-IV

1st Edition

Edited 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, ...

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain

1st Edition

Edited By Charles H. Pence
October 21, 2025

This four-volume collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. As the physical, biological, human, and social sciences were radically reshaped across the 1800's, so the prevailing understanding of scientific methodology changed with ...

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume I: Building Philosophical Systems

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume I: Building Philosophical Systems

1st Edition

Edited By Charles H. Pence
October 05, 2025

This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Perhaps the most striking feature of nineteenth-century works on scientific method is the extent to which they were taken up by authors interested in writing large-scale, systemic works...

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume II: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume II: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution

1st Edition

Edited By Charles H. Pence
October 05, 2025

This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science reconfigured the ways in which practitioners ...

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