Regionalizing Science
Placing Knowledges in Victorian England
Published on 1. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-0-8229-6642-5 (ISBN)
Description
Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments.
Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
Reviews / Votes
Adds a nuanced layer of understanding to how culture, class, gender and distance were played out . . . deserves to be read by scholars of identity, cultural geography and, especially, nineteenth-century science. * <i>British Society for the History of Science</i> * Offers groundbreaking insights into provincial science in Victorian Britain and a fruitful method for studying the intersection of geography and science in history. Carefully researched and nicely illustrated, it is a must-read for scholars who study Victorian Science. * <i>Isis</i> * Provides a sophisticated and empirically grounded new regional geography of scientific culture in the nineteenth century. * <i>H-Net Reviews</i> *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-6642-5 (9780822966425)
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Simon Naylor is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow.