The X Club : power and authority in Victorian science /: power and authority in Victorian science. (2018)
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- Book
- Title:
- The X Club : power and authority in Victorian science /: power and authority in Victorian science. (2018)
- Main Title:
- The X Club : power and authority in Victorian science
- Further Information:
- Note: Ruth Barton.
- Authors:
- Barton, Ruth, 1945-
- Contents:
- 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: scientificIntroduction: 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 culture. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 506/.0421
History -- General
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Intellectual life
Science
Science clubs
SCIENCE / General
History -- Europe -- Great Britain
Science -- History
Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology
Science clubs -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
Science -- England -- History -- 19th century
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
England
England -- London
History
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780226551753
- Related ISBNs:
- 022655175X
9780226551616
022655161X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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