James Poskett. Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920.

von Brescius, Moritz (2022). James Poskett. Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920. The American historical review, 127(3), 1563 -1564. Oxford University Press 10.1093/ahr/rhac275

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James Poskett’s Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920 presents an ambitious and captivating global history of phrenology, the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. Its findings have significance beyond the genealogy of this peculiar doctrine, whose history has so far been too narrowly told from biographical, national, or single-empire perspectives. Here, in contrast, is an empirically rich, analytically versatile, and gracefully written global account of how phrenological thought and practice spread throughout Europe and was taken up in North America, Australia, the Cape Colony, and South Asia, being changed, enriched, disciplined, seized, and contested along the way.

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