Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

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Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Convalescence and the Modern World

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Edited By Hosanna Krienke
October 13, 2026

Across the nineteenth century, what counted as a beneficial medical intervention narrowed considerably. Diagnostic acts like listening to a patient’s heartbeat or performing a physical examination became the norm for medical doctors, while physical acts of care—such as feeding a patient or ...

Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain: Volume II: The Opportunities of Invalidism

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Edited By Hosanna Krienke
October 13, 2026

While convalescence connoted a temporary experience of recuperation after a serious illness, invalidism was pictured as an ongoing—and perhaps endless—experience of ill-health. Invalids, then, were those whose conditions appeared to derive no benefit from scientific medicine’s interventions. Yet ...

Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain

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Edited By Hosanna Krienke
October 13, 2026

An asset to researchers and students alike this two volume set contextualizes the drastically changing environment of nineteenth-century medicine not merely from the perspectives of famed medical experts, but also those of patients, nurses, caregivers, journalists, and social reformers. Students in...

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume I: Foundational Texts

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Edited By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026

Throughout the professionalization of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, there were several debates that raged: the purpose of the pyramids, and who built them; the meaning of hieroglyphs; the styling of statues and artwork on tomb and temple walls; and the history of ancient Egypt, especially ...

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume II: Travel Writing

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By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026

While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period. It was in 1798 though that the French under Napoleon invaded Egypt not only with an army of soldiers but with an army of scholars, which...

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume III: Museums

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Edited By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026

The earliest collections of Egyptian artifacts were those pieces taken by the Roman empire. There are more Egyptian obelisks in Rome today than there are left in Egypt. In the nineteenth century, British collections were built by the same people whose work comprises volume two. They began as ...

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century

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Edited By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026

Egyptology saw its birth as a science during the latter part of the nineteenth century, even though Westerners had been traveling there for millennia. These volumes will present several foundational texts of the discipline in this crucial century, showing throughout each volume the slow, and not ...