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

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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 437 p., [9] p. of plates :; ill.
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Table of 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.