Presented by Dr B 

The origins, dreams, and disasters of the early social sciences.

The age of steam was the age of imagination, but also the age of change. This presentation covers the origins, dreamers, and disturbing downsides of the early European and American social sciences in their historical context, as well as the fantastic fictions their works contributed to.


Dr. B, PhD in sociology, has a love for the dreams of steam. The ways that fiction, fact, and the fantasric overlap is buzzing around in her brain.


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