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British Academy Centenary Monographs

By Martin Daunton (Edited by)

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Table of Contents

Introduction ; Science in nineteenth-century England: plural configurations and singular politics ; Classifying sciences: systematics and status in mid-Victorian natural history ; Victorian social science: from singular to plural ; Political economy and the science of economics in Victorian Britain ; Reason and belief in Victorian mathematics ; Victorian classics: sustaining the study of the ancient world ; The evolution and dissemination of historical knowledge ; Specialization and social utility: disciplining English studies ; The organization of literary knowledge: the study of English in the late nineteenth century ; 'Old studies and new': the organization of knowledge in university curriculum ; The promotion and constraints of knowledge: the changing structure of publishing in Victorian Britain ; Libraries, knowledge and public identity ; Measuring the world: exploration, empire and the reform of the Royal Geographical Society, 1874-93 ; Civic cultures and civic colleges in Victorian England ; Intimacy, imagination and the inner dialetics of knowledge communities: the Synthetic Society, 1896-1908 ; The Academy abroad: the nineteenth-century origin of the British School at Athens ; The strange late birth of the British Academy

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It is a solid book: following an expansive, though-provoking introduction by Martin Daunton, seventeen essays range across a spectrum of institutions, disciplines, geographies of diffusion, and modes of validation ... a valuable and shrewd collection: much knowledge, well organized. David S. Karr, History Journal