Head masters [electronic resource] : phrenology, secular education, and nineteenth-century social thought / Stephen Tomlinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2005.Description: xv, 437 p., [9] p. of plates : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 139/.09 22
LOC classification:
  • BF868 .T66 2005eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-421) and index.

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.

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