Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis - Hardcoverby Bernard Lightman (Editor), Efram Sera Shriar (Editor) The specialization thesis the idea that nineteenth century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines