Background
Turner, James Crewdson was born on June 25, 1946 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Kendrick and Martha Sue (Wilson) Turner.
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Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged the support of the rich and the powerful, of church dignitaries, peers and ministers, and the queen herself. In delving into the history of animal rights, he also offers a fresh perspective on such varied aspects of Victorian culture as attitudes toward sex, pain, child labor, women, poverty, and science. Turner draws on extensive researh in the archives of a animal protection societies, literature of the period, and controversial writings on the treatment of animals. He argues that the dual shocks of industrialization and urbanization helped produce a deeper emotional identification with the natural world. Scientists of the day, proclaiming that human beings were close kin to beasts, not only encouraged but demanded considerate treatment for animals, a sentiment that reached its liveliest expression in the antivivisection controversy. By the turn of the century, the author demonstrates, new conceptions of human nature adn heightened sensitivity even to the plight of lower life-forms were contributing to a new understanding of man's place in nature.
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Until the 19th century, atheism and agnosticism were viewed as bizarre aberrations. But atheism emerged as a viable alternative to other ideologies. How and why it became possible is the subject of this cultural revolution.
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"A crafted, intelligent book. The prose is remarkably clear, as is the argument. Turner offers us intellectual history in something like the grand manner." -- Reviews in American History
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Turner, James Crewdson was born on June 25, 1946 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Kendrick and Martha Sue (Wilson) Turner.
Bachelor, Harvard College, 1968; AM, Harvard University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1975.
Assistant professor, College Charleston, South Carolina., 1975-1977; assistant to associate professor, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1977-1985; professor of history, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1984. Research fellow Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979-1980, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn, Germany, 1987. Director d'etudes associe Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1992.
( Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Vic...)
( Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Vic...)
(Until the 19th century, atheism and agnosticism were view...)
("A crafted, intelligent book. The prose is remarkably cle...)
Married Julianne Rita Christine, June 15, 1968. Children: Peter, Christopher.