GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE IN BRITAIN, 1831-1939 by Charles W. J. Withers ( 9781526116710 )

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GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE IN BRITAIN, 1831-1939
A STUDY OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

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Charles W. J. Withers

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1526116715

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MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 May, 2017

Pages:

296

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Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography's civic history. -- .

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This book examines the history and geography of science in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain and the British Empire. In considering the history and geography of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the discipline of geography in local, national and imperial contexts, the book makes an important inter-disciplinary contribution. Attention is paid to the Association's workings, to geography as a civic science in Britain and overseas and to the connections between education and citizenship in a period of interwar 'crisis' for geography and for science. This volume will greatly extend the knowledge of the BAAS as a leading body for the promotion of science as a public good and will engage social and cultural historians, historians of science and of empire and those with interests in disciplinary history, notably historians of geography. -- .

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34 black & white illustrations, 8 tables

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