Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
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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
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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
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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 ...
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences
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By Charles H. Pence
October 05, 2025
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of ...
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume IV: Forces, Fields, and Energy: Physical Sciences
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By Charles H. Pence
October 05, 2025
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century begins with what was still a largely Newtonian perspective on the nature of matter and the physical world – Newtonian bodies moving through space, guided by a ...
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Urbanisation and Dietary Change
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By Ian Miller
August 31, 2025
In the long nineteenth century, significant developments occurred in science, technology and medicine which transformed food production and consumption. Coupled with this was the impact of the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions. Developments in agricultural production meant that the rapidly ...
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volume II: Diet and Health
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By Ian Miller
August 31, 2025
For all classes, British eating habits changed dramatically in the long nineteenth century. Volume two offers a collection of sources that shed light on what people ate and cooked at home, and also while they were out and about. Cookery books are an obvious primary source, and these range from ...
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volume IV: Britain, Food and the World
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By Ian Miller
August 31, 2025
Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora of unfamiliar foods from overseas. Changing economic trading patterns also impacted massively on the ...
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volume Three: Mealtimes
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By Ian Miller
July 25, 2025
A curious phenomenon occurred in British food writing from around the 1860s. Publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. Breakfast. Luncheons. Afternoon Tea. Dinners. Until this time, most cookbooks had been hefty tomes containing hundreds of pages of recipes, but the new recipe ...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume I: Debates
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By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of the Great War in 1914. By covering this period, readers will be introduced to ongoing debates surrounding women in medicine, via sources which explore the possibilities for – as well as...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume II: Medical Women in Fiction
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By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century. This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women’s entry into the medical profession, and their ...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume III: Global Experiences
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By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
This volume explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. The volume considers, firstly, how especially British medical women travelled internationally to treat patients who, for reasons of religious, cultural, or social beliefs, were reluctant to seek ...