Download or read book Science and Whig Manners written by Joe Bord and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. It offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics.