Head masters
Subtitle: phrenology, secular education, and nineteenth-century social thought
By: Stephen Tomlinson.
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Phrenology -- History.
Description: xv, 437 p. ; 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-421) and index.
Table of contents: title: The science of man; title: Ideology and education in Virginia; title: Gall, naturalist of the mind; title: The birth of the normal; title: George Combe and the rise of phrenology in Britain; title: Schooling for a new moral world; title: The eye of the community; title: The philosophy of Christianity; title: James Simpson and the necessity of popular education; title: Insanity, education, and the introduction of phrenology to America; title: Phrenological Mann; title: From savagery to civilization; title: Guardians of the republic; title: The high tide of secularism; title: The education of Littlehead; title: Race, science, and the republic; title: Ministering to the body politic.