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Visions of the future : almanacs, time, and cultural change, 1775-1870 /

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Historians have long puzzled over the 'death' of astrology at the end of the 17th century. Perkins demonstrates that astrology found expression in almanacs, and goes on to consider why predicting the future became categorized as superstition.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perkins, Maureen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Almanacs > History.
Almanacs, Australian > History.
Future, The, in popular culture > History.
Forecasting > History.
Calendars > History.
Almanachs > Histoire.
Futur dans la culture populaire > Histoire.
Prévision > Histoire.
Almanacs
Almanacs, Australian
Calendars
Forecasting
Future, The, in popular culture
Astrologie.
Almanakken.
Voorspellingen.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Almanacs, Astrology, and the Stationers' Company
  • 2. The Birth of the Statistical Almanac and the Assault on Superstition
  • 3. Almanacs and Prophecy
  • 4. Comic Almanacs
  • 5. Australian Almanacs and Popular Culture
  • 6. The Parent of a Hundred Superstitions
  • Conclusion: Appropriating the Calendar
  • App. I. English Stock 1801.