Science and power in the nineteenth-century Tasman world

• Verfasst von: Roginski, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Science and power in the nineteenth-century Tasman world
• Titelzusatz: popular phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
• Verf.angabe: Alexandra Roginski (Deakin University)
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xvi, 271 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Science in history
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-262
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51944-8
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Roginski, Alexandra: Science and power in the nineteenth-century Tasman world. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023
• K10plus-PPN: 184773720X

Abstract

"A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Innovatively using historical newspapers and other archives, Roginski traces the careers of a range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered"--