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Author Tomlinson, Stephen, 1954-

Title Head masters : phrenology, secular education, and nineteenth-century social thought / Stephen Tomlinson.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 437 pages)
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-421) and index.
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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Phrenology -- History.
Phrenology.
History.
Education -- History -- 19th century.
Phrenology -- history.
Education -- history.
History, 19th Century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Tomlinson, Stephen, 1954- Head masters. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004010594 (OCoLC)55487690
ISBN 9780817387327 (electronic book)
0817387323 (electronic book)
9780817357634
0817357637
0817314393 (alkaline paper)
9780817314392 (alkaline paper)