15. Doing Science in a Global Empire: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in Victorian Britain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. DEFINING KNOWLEDGE
6. 1. Defining Knowledge: An Introduction 15
7. 2. The Construction of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in the Early Victorian Life Sciences 24
8. 3. The Probable and the Possible in Early Victorian England 51
9. 4. Victorian Economics and the Science of Mind 72
10. 5. Biology and Politics: Defining the Boundaries 94
11. 6. Redrawing the Boundaries: Darwinian Science and Victorian Women Intellectuals 119
12. 7. Satire and Science in Victorian Culture 143
13. PAR T TWO. Ordering Nature
14. 8. Ordering Nature: Revisioning Victorian Science Culture 179
15. 9. "The Voices of Nature": Popularizing Victorian Science 187
16. 10. Science and the Secularization of Victorian Images of Race 212
17. 11. Elegant Recreations? Configuring Science Writing for Women 236
18. 19. Strange New Worlds of Space and Time: Late Victorian Science and Science Fiction 256
19. PART THREE. Practicing Science
20. 13. Practicing Science: An Introduction 283
21. 14. Wallace's Malthusian Moment: The Common Context Revisited 290
22. 15. Doing Science in a Global Empire: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in Victorian Britain 312
23. 16. Zoological Nomenclature and the Empire of Victorian Science 334
24. 17. Remains of the Day: Early Victorians in the Field 354
25. 18. Photography as Witness, Detective, and Impostor: Visual Representation in Victorian Science 378
26. 19. Instrumentation and Interpretation: Managing and Representing the Working Environments of Victorian experimental Science 409
27. 20. Metrology, Metrication, and Victorian Values 438
28. Contributors 475
29. Index 477