Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
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 ...
Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire L. Jones
April 22, 2026
Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports readers in making sense of the material themselves to develop students’ historical sensibilities, as ...
Photography and Science in Victorian Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Jordan Bear
March 18, 2026
This is a volume of primary sources that speak to the relationship between photography and science in Victorian culture. As a product of experimentation, as a tool of scientific inquiry, and as a metaphor for conceptualizing the natural world, photography occupies a central position in the culture ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Electric Power Imagined
1st Edition
Edited
By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
The materials in this volume cover the works of the natural philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and entertainers for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The papers, books, and experiments explore the ways in which ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume II: Electric Power in Practice
1st Edition
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By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
The materials in this volume explore how the transformation of electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Outside the lecture halls and laboratories, electric power became a source for inventors, politicians, economists, and the public to explore, define, ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or "grids" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, ...
Electric Power in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025
This three-volume collection of primary sources examines electric power in Victorian Britain. The first volume covers the works of those for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The second volume looks at how electric ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Aitor Anduaga
November 21, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume I: Weather Forecasting and Nation-State Building
1st Edition
Edited
By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume II: Cyclones, Trade, Navigation and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume III: Meteorology and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...
Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume IV: Weather, Climate and Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Aitor Anduaga
November 18, 2025
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...