Nature and the Godly Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and the Godly Empire write by Sujit Sivasundaram. This book was released on 2005-11-17. Nature and the Godly Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.
Science and Empire
Science and Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science and Empire write by B. Bennett. This book was released on 2011-09-13. Science and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.
The Pretender of Pitcairn Island
The Pretender of Pitcairn Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pretender of Pitcairn Island write by Tillman W. Nechtman. This book was released on 2018-09-13. The Pretender of Pitcairn Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has, until now, been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh, and the mutineers' unlikely settlement of Pitcairn. Here, Hill is shown instead as someone alert to the full scope and power of the British Empire, to the geopolitics of international imperial competition, to the ins and outs of naval command, the vicissitudes of court politics, and, as such, to Pitcairn's symbolic power for the British Empire more broadly.
Historicizing Humans
Historicizing Humans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historicizing Humans write by Efram Sera-Shriar. This book was released on 2018-05-23. Historicizing Humans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion and threatened traditional biblical ideas about special creation and the timeline of human history. Advances in print culture and voyages of exploration also provided researchers with a wealth of material that contributed to their investigations into humanity’s past. Historicizing Humans takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.
Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science
Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science write by Stuart Mathieson. This book was released on 2020-11-29. Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the debates around religion and science at the influential Victoria Institute. Founded in London in 1865, and largely drawn from the evangelical wing of the Church of England, it had as its prime objective the defence of ‘the great truths revealed in Holy Scripture’ from ‘the opposition of science, falsely so called’. The conflict for them was not between science and religion directly, but what exactly constituted true science. Chapters cover the Victoria Institute’s formation, its heyday in the late nineteenth century, and its decline in the years following the First World War. They show that at stake was more than any particular theory; rather, it was an entire worldview, combining theology, epistemology, and philosophy of science. Therefore, instead of simply offering a survey of religious responses to evolutionary theory, this study demonstrates the complex relationship between science, evangelical religion, and society in the years after Darwin’s Origin of Species. It also offers some insight as to why conservative evangelicals did not display the militancy of some American fundamentalists with whom they shared so many of their intellectual commitments. Filling in a significant gap in the literature around modern attitudes to religion and science, this book will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, the History of Religion, and Science and Religion.
