Author: Thomas Erskine May
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Author: Thomas Erskine
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375034288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Author: Elise Garritzen
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031284615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.

Author: George Brodie
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Frederic SEEBOHM (Author of “The Oxford Reformers”.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Author: John C. Martin (D.D., Archdeacon of Kilmore, Ireland.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Richard Owen
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Author: John Stuart Mill
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Charles Anthony
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Taru Haapala
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319351281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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This book offers much-needed insight into the Oxford and Cambridge Unions and the important role they have played in nineteenth-century British political culture. Despite this role, or perhaps for that very reason, the Unions have received very little scholarly attention as to their political activities. This study will focus particularly on debating practices through which their members became knowledgeable of the parliamentary way of doing politics. More significantly, it uses the original Union records as primary research material to show that they also had unique political practices of their own. Presenting a detailed analysis of their debates, the book argues that the Unions should be appreciated as independent political arenas, not mere extensions of Westminster politics.