Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. Offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics.

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'...Bord's thesis is interesting and important for the historian of science.' - Metascience

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JOE BORD was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he has completed a research fellowship in history. He has subsequently taught at Fordham University, and the City University of New York. He lives in New York.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Science and Whig Manners
Book Subtitle: Science and Political Style in Britain, c. 1790–1850
Authors: Joe Bord
Series Title: Studies in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595231
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57484-7Published: 31 March 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36555-5Published: 31 March 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59523-1Published: 31 March 2009
Series ISSN: 2946-2053
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 213
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Political History, History of Science, Social History, Modern History

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Manners, Science and Politics

The Statesman

Rational Sociability

Liberality

The Georgic Tradition

Conclusion

Back Matter

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