Author: Sir John Lubbock
Publisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Michael Thompson
Publisher: Melrose Book Company
ISBN: 9781906561444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Horace G. Hutchinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108076467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Published in 1914, this two-volume biography celebrates the achievements of the banker, politician and scientist Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913).

Author: Ursula (Lubbock) Grant Duff ("Hon.-Mrs. Adrian Grant Duff")
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Ursula Grant Duff
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Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mark Patton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317058895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), first Lord Avebury, was a leading figure in the scientific, political and economic world of Victorian Britain, and his life provides an illuminating case study into the ways that these different facets were interlinked during the nineteenth century. Born into a Kent banking family, Lubbock's education was greatly influenced by his neighbour, Charles Darwin, and after the publication of The Origin of Species, he was one of his most vocal supporters. A pioneer of both entomology and archaeology and a successful author, Lubbock also ran the family bank from 1865 until his death in 1913, and served as a Liberal MP from 1870 until his ennoblement in 1900. In all these roles he proved extremely successful, but it is the inter-relations between science, politics and business that forms the core of this book. In particular it explores the way in which Lubbock acted as a link between the scientific worlds of Darwin, Huxley and Tyndall, the political world of Gladstone and Chamberlain and the business world of Edison and Carnegie. By tying these threads together this study shows the important role Lubbock played in defining and popularising the Victorian ideal of progress and its relationship to society, culture and Empire.

Author: Sir John Lubbock
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848222687
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health and science. 0This book is the first radical overview of the period since the 1970s, and focuses on how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and at every scale, influenced the pattern of building across England. It also looks at the building literature of the period, from Country Life to the mass-production picture books for builders and villa builders, and traces the links between these houses and suburbs on the one hand, and the literature and other creative forms of the period of the other. It is part of a new movement to explore the ways in which architectural history is recorded and adds up to an original interpretation of British culture of the period.

Author: Sir John Lubbock
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Sir John Lubbock
Publisher: New York, London : Williams & Norgate
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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