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Media Science Before the Great War

Authors :
Peter Broks
Peter Broks
Publication Year :
1997

Abstract

The rise of the mass media and professional science makes the years before the Great War an important formative period in the history of popular science. Peter Broks explores the magazines of the time and uncovers the scientist as hero and villain; science for and against religion; animal biographies and a new empathy with nature; technology as evolutionary progress; utopian visions and degenerationst fears. Through this cultural analysis of popular science he shows how Victorian hopes turned into Edwardian disillusion.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9780333656389, 9780312160197, and 9781349250431
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
Media Science Before the Great War
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
2841526