UID:
almafu_9961527757102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (678 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781805112419
,
1805112414
Inhalt:
"In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the 'Devil's Chaplain' Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity's ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism."--Publisher's website.
Anmerkung:
Preface / Adrian Desmond -- 1. Underground Evolution : Setting the Stage / Adrian Desmond -- 2. Introducing Saull / Adrian Desmond -- 3. From Eternity to Here: Blasphemy, Eternalism, and the Emerging Question of Origins / Adrian Desmond -- 4. From the Devil's Chaplain to That Dirty Little Jacobin / Adrian Desmond -- 5. Perfectibility / Adrian Desmond -- 6. Founding the Museum: June 1831 / Adrian Desmond -- 7. Monkey-Man : The Bristol Lecture 1833 / Adrian Desmond -- 8. The Antichrist and the Shaven Monkey / Adrian Desmond -- 9. Damned Monkeys / Adrian Desmond -- 10. An Appeal to the Revolutionary Enemy / Adrian Desmond -- 11. Creation on the Cheap / Adrian Desmond -- 12. Making Sense of the Museum / Adrian Desmond -- 13. A Purpose-built Museum : 1835 / Adrian Desmond -- 14. Satires on Saull / Adrian Desmond -- 15. Martyrs, Churches and Vestries / Adrian Desmond -- 16. Lease-holder of the New Moral World / Adrian Desmond -- 17. Halls of Science / Adrian Desmond -- 18. The Atheist Breakaway / Adrian Desmond -- 19. Backlash / Adrian Desmond -- 20. Peace and Harmony / Adrian Desmond -- 21. Secularism and Salvage / Adrian Desmond -- 22. British Aborigines / Adrian Desmond -- 23. Reforming Scientific Society / Adrian Desmond -- 24. Museum and Pantheon for the Masses / Adrian Desmond -- 25. Celebrating the Dead / Adrian Desmond -- 26. Provisions for the Afterlife / Adrian Desmond -- 27. Death and Dissolution / Adrian Desmond.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781805112396
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1805112392
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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