| Series |
Studies in modern history
Studies in modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) ^A587167
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| Contents |
Manners, Science and Politics -- Science and political manners -- Whiggery and the political narrative: An overview -- variety of Whiggery: further aspects -- Whiggery and the spectrum of science and politics -- Whig politics and the history of science -- 2. Statesman -- knowledge of the statesman -- Administrative statesmanship -- Republican science and the problem of the Foxite alignment -- Brougham versus hypothesis -- 3. Rational Sociability -- Foxite materialism and Holland House -- Lansdownes -- Knowledge and social leadership -- Coalitions of knowledge -- Bacon, science and sociability -- 4. Liberality -- Science, Whig politics and the struggle for liberality -- Liberality and corporeality -- Paradoxical bodies -- Dualism and instinct -- 5. Georgic Tradition -- Pastoralism and the Georgic tradition -- Georgics, Davy and the Bedford connection -- Georgics of the mind -- Georgic decline: Whigs and Peelites -- Conclusion -- Whig statesmen and science -- Location by style -- Politics as artificial selection -- Implications. |
| Abstract |
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. It offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-202) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008037191 |
| ISBN | 9780230574847 |
| ISBN | 023057484X |
