Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland

by Diarmid A. Finnegan

The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822966352
• ISBN13: 9780822966357
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"