phrenology, secular education, and nineteenth-century social thought /
First Statement of Responsibility
Stephen Tomlinson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Alabama Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 437 p., [9] p. of plates :
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ill.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-421) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The science of man -- Ideology and education in Virginia -- Gall, naturalist of the mind -- The birth of the normal -- George Combe and the rise of phrenology in Britain -- Schooling for a new moral world -- The eye of the community -- The philosophy of Christianity -- James Simpson and the necessity of popular education -- Insanity, education, and the introduction of phrenology to America -- Phrenological Mann -- From savagery to civilization -- Guardians of the republic -- The high tide of secularism -- The education of Littlehead -- Race, science, and the republic -- Ministering to the body politic.