Book ID: CBB000077106

A measure of perfection: Phrenology and the fine arts in America (1997)

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Colbert, Charles (Author)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xvi + 441 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Cooter, R. (1999) Review of "A measure of perfection: Phrenology and the fine arts in America". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 609-11). unapi

Review Miller, D.C. (1999) Review of "A measure of perfection: Phrenology and the fine arts in America". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (pp. 115-18). unapi

Review Giustino, D. De (1998) Review of "A measure of perfection: Phrenology and the fine arts in America". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 418-20). unapi

Review Black, M.L. (1998) Review of "A measure of perfection: Phrenology and the fine arts in America". New York History (pp. 439-40). unapi

Review Bjelajac, D. (1999) Review of "A measure of perfection: Phrenology and the fine arts in America". American Historical Review (pp. 906-7). unapi

Review Irr, C. (1998) Review of "A measure of perfection: Phrenology and the fine arts in America". Modernism/Modernity (pp. 123-24). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Aerni, Fritz
Brook, Isis
Carlisle, Janice
Cooter, Roger J.
Cowling, Mary C.
De Giustino, David
Journals
History of Psychology
Journal of Modern History
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Medical History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Harvard University
Columbia University
Cambridge University Press
Baroni
Croom Helm
Kalos-Verlag
Concepts
Personality; character
Psychology
Prizes; awards
Physiognomy
Coins; medals; seals
People
Lavater, Johann Caspar
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Combe, George
Eliot, George
Gratiolet, Pierre
Hamilton, William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
France
United States
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
Royal Society of London
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