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The polyvalent preoccupations of modern historiography

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  • Tom Griffiths,Hunters and Gatherers: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 416. A$90.00 HB, $34.95 PB.

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  1. J. Bennett, et al.Empires of Physics:A Guide to the Exhibition (Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1993). See also R. Staley (ed.),The Physics of Empire: Public Lectures (Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1994).

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  2. Our own research used international exhibitions to introduce a similar promiscuity of sources and subjects in an exploration of the work of the scientific imagination in the period, and our second exhibition addressed the silence of the first — and some of the themes Griffiths explores so thoroughly — in a gallery devoted to allowing visitors to experience the way anthropometric measurement configured understanding of human populations and cultures around 1900. See R. Brain,Going to the Fair: Readings in the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions (Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1993), and J. Bennett, et al. 1990: The New Age. A Guide to the Exhibition (Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1994).

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  1. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

    Richard Staley

  2. Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England

    John Mackenzie

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Staley, R., Mackenzie, J. The polyvalent preoccupations of modern historiography. Metascience 6, 69–77 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03019464

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