Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science
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Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the...
The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman
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This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the...
A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering
Gillian Cookson and Colin Hempstead
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This title was first published in 2000: In a life of only 52 years, Fleeming Jenkin established his...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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Saville's corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape...
Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
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Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
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The gripping story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine...
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors: A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians
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Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has...
Gerald Howard-Smith and the 'Lost Generation' of Late Victorian and Edwardian England
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Gerald Howard-Smith's life is intriguing both in its own right and as a vehicle for exploring the...
