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Free Download Iwan Rhys Morus, "How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1639362606 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 29.7 mb
The rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Free Download The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective: Volume 1 by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 278 Pages | ISBN : 3031687582 | 69.2 MB
The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. It examines the use of gutta-percha in the development of electrical measurements; provides a detailed history of cocoa and the forced labor in the São Tomé and Príncipe Islands; explores the beauty, imagination, and order of William and May Morris’ flowers; uncovers the world of Charles Darwin and the Victorian Botany Culture; highlights the crucial role of the Wardian Case in the global transport of plants; reveals the connection between Mid-Victorian Botany and Microscopy; offers glimpses of the colonial collections at the 1862 London Exhibition; explains how botany was connected with the development of photography; evokes the desire for a return to Nature and a simple life; and, finally, takes us on a journey through the history of violets.

Free Download Alan Rauch, "Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 082232668X, 0822326639 | PDF | pages: 305 | 4.1 mb
Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children’s literature, mechanics’ institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In Useful Knowledge Alan Rauch presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this new knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.

Free Download How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future, UK Edition by Iwan Rhys Morus
English | November 3rd, 2022 | ISBN: 1785789287 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 10.12 MB
By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological development brought about between 1800 and 1900 was completely unprecedented in human history. And as the Victorians looked to the skies and beyond as the next frontier to be explored and conquered, they were inventing, shaping and moulding the very idea of the future.

Free Download The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
by Sarah Bartels
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367444208 | 247 Pages | True PDF | 5.67 MB

Free Download The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRYRY2B | 2023 | 3 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 209 MB
Author: Martin Hewitt
Narrator: Mike Cooper
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport networks, sewage systems, streets, and houses. Victorian cultural legacies, especially in art, science, and literature, are still celebrated. Much mythologized, inexhaustibly controversial, the Victorians are an inescapable reference point for understanding the modern histories not just of Britain and its empire, but of the world. In The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction Martin Hewitt offers a guide through the thickets of judgement and debate which have grown around the period and its people, to offer a historical overview of the Victorians and their legacies. Beyond ideology, what was Victorian Britain actually like DS and in particular, what was distinctive about it? Who were the Victorians DS not just the eminent few, but the population as a whole? And finally, how far and with what results did the Victorians and their culture spread across the globe? In answering these questions, Hewitt cautions against some long-held orthodoxies, throws a light on some less well-known aspects of the period, and urges the importance of understanding the Victorians on their own terms if we are to effectively engage with their legacies.

Free Download Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031284925 | 402 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 37 MB
From contemporary deployments of taxidermy, magic lanterns and microscopy to the visualization of forgotten lives, marginalized narratives and colonial histories, this book explores how the work of artists including Mat Collishaw, Yinka Shonibare, Tessa Farmer, Mark Dion, Dorothy Cross and Ingrid Pollard reimag(in)es the Victorians in the ‘present’. Examining how recent paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films revisit and re-present nineteenth-century technologies, practices and events, the book’s rich interdisciplinary approach applies literary, media and linguistic theories to its analysis of visual art, alongside in-depth discussions of the Victorian inventions, concepts and narratives that they invoke. The book’s emphasis on how – and why – we represent the historical past makes its contribution particularly timely. And by drawing attention to the importance of historiography to the work of these artists, it also unravels the complicated history of History itself. This book will speak to diverse audiences including those interested in art history, visual culture, Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, as well as literature, histories of science and media, postcolonialism, museology, gender studies, postmodernism and the history of ideas.