The Last Puritan in a Nation of Amateurs

Richard Donkin

Chapter Chapter 8 in The History of Work, 2010, pp 103-116 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract London’s Natural History Museum is one of the city’s finest examples of Victorian architecture, its neo-Gothic facade and interior elaborately decorated with colored stone inlays of flora and fauna. Conceived and commissioned by Sir Richard Owen — the man whose Dinosauria, published in 1842, introduced the world to a genus of bird-hipped reptiles that walked upon the earth before the Ark — the museum is a temple to the Age of Enlightenment. Through its halls walked the greatest minds of their day, men of stature, revered and honored for their knowledge alone.

Keywords: Slave Trade; Protestant Work Ethic; African Slave; Professional Class; Chattel Slavery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230282179_8

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