The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a central paradig

Like many other states, the 19th century was a period of coming to grips with the growing domination of the world by the 'Great Powers' for the Ottoman Empire.

This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.

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A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.