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- Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
- Science in History
- Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Language
- A Note on Related Texts
- Maps
- Introduction: The Show Begins
- 1 Bumps on the Road: Phrenological Touts and Travellers
- 2 Massaging the Town: Phrenological Ordeals and Audiences
- 3 Tactics on Stage: Indigenous Performers, Cultural Exchange and Negotiated Power
- 4 A Godly Touch of Male Power: Phrenology, Mesmerism and Gendered Authority
- 5 Talking Heads on a Murray River Mission
- 6 Black Phrenologists, Black Masks
- 7 Popular Science in a Changing Māori World
- 8 Gardening a European Island: Phrenologists, Whiteness and Reform for Nationhood
- 9 Divinatory Science in the City and the Bush
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
A Note on Related Texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2023
- Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
- Science in History
- Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Language
- A Note on Related Texts
- Maps
- Introduction: The Show Begins
- 1 Bumps on the Road: Phrenological Touts and Travellers
- 2 Massaging the Town: Phrenological Ordeals and Audiences
- 3 Tactics on Stage: Indigenous Performers, Cultural Exchange and Negotiated Power
- 4 A Godly Touch of Male Power: Phrenology, Mesmerism and Gendered Authority
- 5 Talking Heads on a Murray River Mission
- 6 Black Phrenologists, Black Masks
- 7 Popular Science in a Changing Māori World
- 8 Gardening a European Island: Phrenologists, Whiteness and Reform for Nationhood
- 9 Divinatory Science in the City and the Bush
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman WorldPopular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, pp. xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023