Michael Worboys

This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.

The Victorians Who Made the Modern Dog

Doggy People

Michael F. Goodchild

Matt Duckham

As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature of geographic information. This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions on this theme. What is geographic information? What fundamental principles are associated with it? How can

Foundations of Geographic Information Science

Max J. Egenhofer

Nicholas Giudice

Reinhard Moratz

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2011, held in Belfast, ME, USA, in September 2011. The 23 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on maps and navigation, spatial change, spatial reasoning, spatial cognition and social aspects of space, perception and spatial semantics, and space and language.

10th International Conference, COSIT 2011, Belfast, ME, USA

Spatial Information Theory

The Sanatorium Treatment for Consumption in Britain, 1890-1914

Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine. He shows that there were many germ theories of disease, and that these were developed and used in different ways across veterinary medicine, surgery, public health and general medicine. The growth of bacteriology is considered in relation to the evolution of medical practice rather than as a separate science of germs.

Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900

Spreading Germs

Neil Pemberton

Julie-Marie Strange

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain’s posture in a global empire, The Invention of the Modern Dog demonstrates that studying dog breeding cultures allows historians to better understand the complex social relationships of late-nineteenth-century Britain.

Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain

The Invention of the Modern Dog

Lara Marks

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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