[BOOKS] ✸ Materials of the Mind Author James Poskett – Bluevapours.co.uk Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age From American senators to Indian social reformers this new mental science found supporters around the globe Materials of the Mind te Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age From American senators to Indian social reformers this new mental science found supporters around the globe Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world—and how the world changed phrenology   This is a story of skulls from the Arctic plaster casts from Haiti books from Bengal and letters from the Pacific Drawing on far flung museum and archival collections and addressing sources in six different languages Materials of the Mind Materials of MOBI :✓ is an impressively innovative account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind while also demonstrating how a global approach to history can help us reassess issues such as race technology and politics today.

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James Poskett