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Media Science before the Great War

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Peter Broks

    1. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Popular Culture

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 1-13

  3. Popular Press

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 14-27

  4. The Popularisation of Science

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 28-40

  5. Images

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 41-52

  6. Science and Religion

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 53-65

  7. Nature

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 66-82

  8. Evolution

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 83-97

  9. Progress

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 98-110

  10. New Mentalities

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 111-127

  11. Conclusion

    • Peter Broks
    Pages 128-133

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 134-183
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The rise of the mass media and professional science makes the years before the Great War an important formative period in the history of popular science. Peter Broks explores the magazines of the time and uncovers the scientist as hero and villain; science for and against religion; animal biographies and a new empathy with nature; technology as evolutionary progress; utopian visions and degenerationst fears. Through this cultural analysis of popular science he shows how Victorian hopes turned into Edwardian disillusion.

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  • University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Peter Broks

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