![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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![Financing the New Space Industry]( "Financing the New Space Industry")
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McCurdy, H. E. (2019)
This Palgrave Pivot investigates the efforts of five aerospace companies—SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, and the Boeing Company—to launch their entry into …
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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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![Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement]( "Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement")
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Debenham, C. (2018)
This book examines the life, work and contraversial achievements of Marie Stopes, author and pioneer of the birth control movement in the interwar period. As the centenary of the …
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![Executing Magic in the Modern Era]( "Executing Magic in the Modern Era")
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Davies, O., Matteoni, F. (2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking …
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![Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930]( "Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930")
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Gooday, G., Sayer, K. (2017)
This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated in Britain before the National Health Service. We explore the changing status of ‘hard of …
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![Remembering and Disremembering the Dead]( "Remembering and Disremembering the Dead")
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Tomasini, F. (2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when …
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![Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain]( "Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain")
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Withey, A. (2016)
The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanour were …
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![Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography]( "Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography")
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Cat, J. (2013)
This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true …
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![Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45]( "Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45")
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Shilcutt, T. (2013)
Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. …
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![The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China]( "The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China")
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Lynteris, C. (2013)
Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of …
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