Bücher von J. W. Burrow

This 1966 text investigates the reasons why Victorian pioneers of social science were habitually approaching the study of other societies with largely positivistic and evolutionary methodologies. He also seeks to contextualise these ideas, which are often anachronistically classified as Darwinist within the studies of other leading Victorian scientists.

The book seeks to establish the significance for the Victorians of three great crises of English history. The book will interest students and teachers working on nineteenth-century English history, literature or social and political thought, the history of ideas, and legal and constitutional history.