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  • The Victorian View

    Ways of Understanding the World in the Nineteenth Century

    by Edward Beasley ...
    A historical look at how Victorians characterized humanity—from novels to statistics, social sciences to artHow can we make well-informed, humane generalizations about our own culture or other cultures around the globe when there are quite simply so many of them, and so many people to characterize? And how can we understand the masses of people even in one city? Should we turn to literature, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • A Male Hysteria

    Diabetes and the Victorian Mind

    by Edward Beasley ...
    Series series
    A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century EnglandA Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about diabetes given the science of the day? And what did new models of diabetes mean for the treatment and self-image of diabetics?Ideas about diabetes were ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

  • Empire as the Triumph of Theory

    Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868

    by Edward Beasley ...
    Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes as its sample the more than two hundred earliest ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Chartist General

    Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism

    by Edward Beasley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biography of Napier, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Mid-Victorian Imperialists

    British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind

    by Edward Beasley ...
    Series series British Politics and Society
    Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Victorian Reinvention of Race

    New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

    by Edward Beasley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • DNA Microarrays and Related Genomics Techniques

    Design, Analysis, and Interpretation of Experiments

    Edited by David B. Allison, Grier P. Page, T. Mark Beasley, Jode W. Edwards ...
    Considered highly exotic tools as recently as the late 1990s, microarrays are now ubiquitous in biological research. Traditional statistical approaches to design and analysis were not developed to handle the high-dimensional, small sample problems posed by microarrays. In just a few short years the number of statistical papers providing approaches ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Beneath the Restless Wave

    Memoirs of a Cold War Submariner

    by Tony Beasley, Edward Couzens-Lake ...
    A Royal Navy submariner and hero of the Cold War reveals his incredible true story of covert ops against the Soviets in this military memoir.Tony Beasley was just a teenager when he joined the Royal Navy in 1946. Throughout his training and specialization as a telegraphist, he anticipated a life above the water, not beneath it. But with the Cold War brewing, new threats emerged, and Beasely was ... Read more

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  • Shelby’s Expedition to Mexico

    An Unwritten Leaf of the War

    by John R. Edwards ...
    Series series The Civil War in the West
    Confederate general Joseph O. Shelby and his legendary Iron Brigade refused to acknowledge the end of the Civil War. Instead, they fought their way to Mexico in search of a place where they could continue to defy the U.S. government. These veteran Missouri cavalrymen clawed their way for fifteen hundred miles, fighting Juaristas, Indians, desperados, and disgruntled gringos. They disbanded only ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Acts of Union and Disunion

    by Linda Colley ...
    The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past.She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far - and why - it has faded. ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD