Book ID: CBB000020901

Conquest of mind: Phrenology and Victorian social thought (1975)

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De Giustino, David (Author)


Croom Helm


Publication Date: 1975
Physical Details: vii + 248 pp.; bibl.; index

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Review Murphy, S. (1975) Review of "Conquest of mind: Phrenology and Victorian social thought". New Scientist (p. 575). unapi

Review Shapin, S. (1977) Review of "Conquest of mind: Phrenology and Victorian social thought". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 177-79). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Cooter, Roger J.
Cowling, Mary C.
Barnes, E. J.
Basden, N.
Benedict, Barbara M.
Berland, K. J. H.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Art Hist.
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Essays in Arts and Sciences
Études Anglaises, Grande-Bretagne-États-Unis
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press
University of Cambridge (UK)
Concepts
Personality; character
People
Combe, George
Dryden, John
Frith, William Powell
Hamilton, William
Hobbes, Thomas
Hogarth, William
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
Phrenological Society of Edinburgh
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