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Materials of the mind : phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920
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Materials of the mind : phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920 / James Poskett.
ISBN
9780226626895 (ebook) :
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2020).
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Summary
This text reconstructs the global history of phrenology - the most popular mental science of the Victorian age - through a close study of its material culture. In doing so, it provides an answer to a basic but important question facing historians of science today: what exactly is a global history of science?
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University press scholarship online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 24, 2020
Series
Chicago scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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