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Introduction
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.
Keywords
evolution mass media media science
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25043-1
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-25045-5
- Online ISBN 978-1-349-25043-1
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