![The Epochal Event]( "The Epochal Event")
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Simon, Z. B. (2020)
This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring …
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![Women and the Natural Sciences in Edwardian Britain]( "Women and the Natural Sciences in Edwardian Britain")
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Ayres, P. (2020)
This book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain. Though educational opportunities in schools and universities …
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![Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan]( "Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan")
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Low, M. (2020)
This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it …
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![La Niña and the Making of Climate Optimism]( "La Niña and the Making of Climate Optimism")
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Miller, J. (2019)
This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change. It is the first study of the …
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![Astronomy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Chile and the United States]( "Astronomy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Chile and the United States")
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Silva, B. K. (2019)
This Palgrave Pivot tells the transnational story of the astronomical observatory in the hills near Santiago, Chile, built in the early twentieth century through the efforts of …
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![Moral Ecologies]( "Moral Ecologies")
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Griffin, C. J. (Ed), Jones, R. (Ed), Robertson, I. J. M. (Ed) (2019)
This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry—and …
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![Shaping Human Science Disciplines]( "Shaping Human Science Disciplines")
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Fleck, C. (Ed), Duller, M. (Ed), Karády, V. (Ed) (2019)
This book presents an analysis of the institutional development of selected social science and humanities (SSH) disciplines in Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the …
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![The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer]( "The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer")
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Housley, K. L. (2019)
In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives—Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them—became …
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![Limiting Outer Space]( "Limiting Outer Space")
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Geppert, A. C. (Ed) (2018)
Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings, disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer …
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![The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History]( "The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History")
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White, S. (Ed), Pfister, C. (Ed), Mauelshagen, F. (Ed) (2018)
This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international …
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![The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain]( "The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain")
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Santesmases, M. J. (2018)
This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war …
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![Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion]( "Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion")
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Lynteris, C. (Ed), Evans, N. H. A. (Ed) (2018)
This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the …
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![Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy]( "Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy")
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Frampton, S. (2018)
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, …
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![Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690–1945]( "Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690–1945")
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Terazawa, Y. (2018)
This book analyzes how women’s bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women’s reproductive health in Japan between the …
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![Ocean Science and the British Cold War State]( "Ocean Science and the British Cold War State")
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Robinson, S. A. (2018)
This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence …
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![Competing Arctic Futures]( "Competing Arctic Futures")
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Wormbs, N. (Ed) (2018)
This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and …
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![Technology and Globalisation]( "Technology and Globalisation")
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Pretel, D. (Ed), Camprubí, L. (Ed) (2018)
This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts have …
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![Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse]( "Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse")
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Tarlow, S., Battell Lowman, E. (2018)
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth …
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![The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England]( "The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England")
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Mackintosh, A. (2018)
In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare …
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![Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London]( "Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London")
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Newsom Kerr, M. (2018)
This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, …
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