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A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland

• Author(s): John Bernard Burke, Sir Bernard Burke

• Categories: Aristocracy (Social class)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1898
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Patrician ...

• Author(s): John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke

• Categories: Genealogy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1846
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington ...

• Author(s): John Worthington

• Categories: Great Britain

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1847
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• Publisher: Unknown

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James Cowles Prichard's Anthropology

• Author(s): H.F. Augstein

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-08-29
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• Publisher: BRILL

The Bristol doctor James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) has enjoyed a glowing reputation. Late Victorians regarded him as the founder of British anthropology and, in the twentieth century, he has been considered as a precursor of Darwin. Nowadays his name is cited mainly in context of inquiries into the rise of racial theories. Prichard's own theoretical goal was simple: the son of Quaker parents, he attempted to establish that the Bible provided a correct account of the earliest history of humankind; above all it was his aim to prove once and for all the doctrine of monogenesis: the unitary origins of mankind. He single-handedly charted the waters of the pre-Victorian human sciences. Philology...

The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1831
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• Publisher: Unknown

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