Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

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This monograph series focuses on the history of science during the nineteenth century. An era of exciting and transformative scientific discoveries, it was also a period when significant features of the relationship between contemporary science and culture first assumed form. The series includes studies of major developments within the disciplines, from geology and botany, to astronomy and medicine, as well as works on popular science. The evolution of scientific ideas is placed in its social, political, religious, cultural, imperial and international contexts.

Send us a Proposal
We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

Although this will be primarily a monograph series, we are also willing to consider edited collections. Proposals may address any aspect of nineteenth century science, for example 'disciplines' such as geology, biology, botany, astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, technology, and mathematics. Proposals may also focus on themes within the social sciences, natural philosophy, natural history, the alternative sciences, and popular science. In addition, they may examine science in relation to one or more of its many contexts, including literature, politics, religion, class, gender, colonialism and imperialism, material culture, visual culture and print culture. The focus will be on Britain, Europe, and the United States, but we are willing to consider works with a comparative and international dimension. Although the chronological focus will be on the nineteenth century, manuscripts that begin in the late eighteenth century or that go into the early twentieth century are also welcome.

Send your proposals to: Bernard Lightman, 309 Bethune College, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3 or email lightman@yorku.ca.

For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.

Readership

History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Nineteenth-Century Studies

Editorial board

Bernard Lightman, York University
Robert Brain, University of British Columbia
William Brock, University of Kent
Janet Browne, Harvard University
Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds
Pietro Corsi, University of Oxford
Fa-Ti Fan, State University of New York-Binghamton
Aileen Fyfe, University of St Andrews
Bruce Hunt, University of Texas
Myles Jackson, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
Sally Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota
Lynn K Nyhart, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Michael A Osborne, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bowdoin van Riper, Southern Polytechnic State University
Marc Rothenberg, National Science Foundation
Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge
Jutta Schickore, Indiana University
Ann Shteir, York University
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford
Robert Smith, University of Alberta
Jon Topham, University of Leeds

Published titles

• The British Arboretum : Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Communicating Physics : The Production, Circulation and Appropriation of Ganot's Textbooks in France and England, 1851–1887
• Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
• Domesticating Electricity : Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914
• James Watt, Chemist : Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
• Medicine and Modernism : A Biography of Sir Henry Head
• Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
• Recreating Newton : Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science
• Regionalizing Science : Placing Knowledges in Victorian England
• Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century 1–10
• Science and Eccentricity : Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences
• The Science of History in Victorian Britain : Making the Past Speak
• Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences : Shared Assumptions, 1820–58
• The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain
• Typhoid in Uppingham : Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–7
• Vision, Science and Literature, 1870–1920 : Ocular Horizons

Forthcoming titles

• Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840–1910

  Editors: Joe Kember, John Plunkett and Jill A Sullivan

  (April 2012)

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• Science and Culture leaflet

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