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The X Club : power and authority in Victorian science / Ruth Barton

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: xii, 604 Seiten : IllustrationenISBN:
  • 9780226551616
  • 022655161X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780226551753. DDC classification:
  • 506.0421
  • 506/.0421 23
RVK: RVK: AK 17300LOC classification:
  • Q41
DOI: DOI: 10.7208/978-0-226-55175-3Summary: Introduction: the X Club, 1864-92 -- Nine men who wanted to change the world -- Historians of the X Club -- Introducing this book -- Origins and ambitions. Cultures of science in early Victorian England ; Gentlemanly London science ; Science for self-improvement: Frankland, Tyndall, and Hirst ; Spencer and Huxley: the science and politics of rational dissent ; Spottiswoode at Oxford: a liberal education for a Christian gentleman ; Scientific aspirations, social status, and religious beliefs -- Making career. Finding employment: patronage and pluralism ; Scientific expertise and gentlemanly status ; A taste for campaigning ; Friends -- Speaking for nature. Defending Darwin and expanding the domain of nature ; Alliances: naturalistic science and liberal theology ; The science of man: ethnologists against anthropologists ; The reader: a liberal alliance and its collapse ; Friends and conspirators -- The X Club established. Organizing science ; Specialist societies ; The British association: representing science to the nation ; The Royal Society: power and its symbolic uses ; Men of weight, of craft, and of party ; Public money and the public good. Science in the curriculum I: examination successes ; Science in the curriculum II: lobbying failures ; Money and advice: the reciprocal relations of science and government ; Hirst's career: higher education and London life ; Good and influential men -- Claiming cultural authority. Self-images ; Science militant ; Insiders: scientific men at home among the social elite ; Pulpits for science ; The rhetoric of scientific authority ; Sunday Lecture Societies: the politics of lay sermons ; Cultural leaders -- Retrospective the life, work, and times of the X Club -- Phases of power and friendship, 1860-1900 -- The X Club program: the authority and independence of science and scientific men -- Victorian science and Victorian cultureCall number: Grundsignatur: 2018 A 3767PPN: PPN: 1638824509
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