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

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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 ...

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences

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. 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

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume IV: Forces, Fields, and Energy: Physical Sciences

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. 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

Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Urbanisation and Dietary Change

1st Edition

Edited 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

Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volume II: Diet and Health

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

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