The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) - Softcover

Hesketh, Ian

 
9780822966364: The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822966360 ISBN 13: 9780822966364
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural philosophy. This study examines parallels between the professionalization of both history and science at the time, which have previously been overlooked.

Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources—monographs, lectures, correspondence—from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

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Ian Hesketh is associate professor of history at the University of Queensland. He is an intellectual historian and historian of science. He has written extensively on the history of evolution, the history of historical writing, the philosophy of history, and the history of religious thought.

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Verlag
UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822966360
ISBN 13 
9780822966364
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Anzahl der Seiten
248
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