Author: Bathsheba H. Morse CranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Life, Letters, and Wayside Gleanings
Author: Bathsheba H. Morse CranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life, Letters, And Wayside Gleanings
Author: Bathsheba H Morse CranePublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781013210358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
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Friendship and Wayside Gleanings
Author: Ellen A. BarrowsThe Life of James A. Garfield
Author: Charles Carleton CoffinPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Beauty and the Brain
Author: Rachel E. WalkerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.
Why?
Author: D. S. S.Second Bulletin of the Haverhill Public Library. July, 1888
Author: Haverhill Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Must the Old Testament Go?, Or, The Relation of the Old Testament to the Christian Life of To-day
Author: Wilbur Fisk CraftsPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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London, Bridge; Or a Capital and Labor
Author: James Abraham MartlingPublisher:
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Category : London Bridge (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Building a Character
Author: Andrew Preston PeabodyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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