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GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE IN BRITAIN, 1831-1939
A STUDY OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE |
| By: |
Charles W. J. Withers |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719079764 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719079764 |
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| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 August, 2010 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography's civic history. -- . |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines the history and geography of science and the science of geography in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain and the British Empire. In considering the history and geography of the Association and of geography in local, national and imperial contexts, the book makes an important inter-disciplinary contribution to the history and geography of science and to the civic history of geography. Attention is paid to the Association's workings, to geography as a civic science in Britain and overseas and to the connections between education and citizenship in a period of interwar 'crisis' for geography and for science.This volume will greatly extend the knowledge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as a leading body for the promotion of science as a public good and will engage social and cultural historians, historians of science and of empire and those with interests in disciplinary history, notably historians of geography. -- . |
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Illustrations, black & white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
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Non-returnable |