The organisation of knowledge in Victorian Britain / edited by Martin Daunton.
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Martin Daunton
- 2. Science in nineteenth-century England : plural configurations and singular politics / John Pickstone
- 3. Classifying sciences : systematics and status in mid-Victorian natural history / Jim Endersby
- 4. Victorian social science : from singular to plural / Lawrence Goldman
- 5. Political economy and the science of economics in Victorian Britain / Keith Tribe
- 6. Reasoning and belief in Victorian mathematics / Daniel J. Cohen
- 7. Victorian classics : sustaining the study of the ancient world / Frank M. Turner
- 8. The evolution and dissemination of historical knowledge / Michael Bentley
- 9. Specialisation and social utility : disciplining English studies / Josephine M. Guy
- 10. The organisation of literary knowledge : the study of English in the late nineteenth century / Carol Atherton
- 11. 'Old studies and new' : the organisation of knowledge in university curriculum / John R. Gibbins
- 12. The promotion and constraints of knowledge : the changing structure of publishing in Victorian Britain / James Raven
- 13. Libraries, knowledge and public identity / David McKitterick
- 14. Measuring the world : exploration, empire and the reform of the royal geographical society, c.1874-93 / Max Jones
- 15. Civic cultures and civic colleges in Victorian England / Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
- 16. Intimacy, imagination and the inner dialetics of knowledge communities : the synthetic society, 1896-1908 / W. C. Lubenow
- 17. The academy abroad : the nineteenth-century origin of the British school at Athens / Mary Beard and Christopher Stray
- 18. The strange late birth of the British academy / Richard Drayton.
