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Head masters : phrenology, secular education, and nineteenth-century social thought / Stephen Tomlinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomlinson, Stephen, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phrenology--History.
- Phrenology.
- Education--History--19th century.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 437 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-421) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0817314393
- OCLC:
- 55487690
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