Victorian Sensation
The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
624 pages, 155 halftones 6 x 9
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2001, 2003
Cloth $35.00
ISBN: 9780226744100
Published February 2001
Paper $22.50
ISBN: 9780226744117
Published October 2003
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James A. Secord is Reader in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is author of, among others, Controversy in Victorian Geology, editor of the Chicago edition of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings, and coeditor of Cultures of Natural History.
Awards
- PROSE Book Award
- SHARP DeLong Book History Prize
- Pfizer Award for a Distinguished Book in the History of
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