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Science and Whig Manners

Science and Political Style in Britain, c. 1790–1850

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Joe Bord
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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Manners, Science and Politics

    • Joe Bord
    Pages 1-30

  3. The Statesman

    • Joe Bord
    Pages 31-55

  4. Rational Sociability

    • Joe Bord
    Pages 56-78

  5. Liberality

    • Joe Bord
    Pages 79-101

  6. The Georgic Tradition

    • Joe Bord
    Pages 102-134

  7. Conclusion

    • Joe Bord
    Pages 135-150

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 151-213
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About this book

Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. Offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics.

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'...Bord's thesis is interesting and important for the historian of science.' - Metascience

About the author

JOE BORD was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he has completed a research fellowship in history. He has subsequently taught at Fordham University, and the City University of New York. He lives in New York.

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