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Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
Head Masters Phrenology Secular Education and NineteenthCentury Social Thought
Author: Stephen Tomlinson
Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology--the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character--played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role in the development of education. Stephen Tomlinson asserts instead that phrenology was a scientifically respectable theory of human nature, perhaps the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780817314392
ISBN-10: 0817314393
Publication Date: 2/13/2005
Pages: 456
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Publisher: University Alabama Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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