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Solovey, M. (Ed), Dayé, C. (Ed) (2021)
This book explores how social science became entangled with the transnational dimensions of the Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, …
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Janué i Miret, M. (Ed), Presas i Puig, A. (Ed) (2021)
This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the …
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Niskanen, K. (Ed), Barany, M. J. (Ed) (2021)
This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and …
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Kirchhelle, C. (2021)
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth …
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Bulkeley, R. (2021)
This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country’s first Antarctic expedition (1819-21) over the past 200 years. It …
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Chetty, S. (2021)
This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa …
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Geppert, A. C. (Ed), Brandau, D. (Ed), Siebeneichner, T. (Ed) (2021)
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on …
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Cramer, K. C. (2020)
This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of …
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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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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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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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Martin, M. (Ed), Damodaran, V. (Ed), D'Souza, R. (Ed) (2019)
Contemporary anxieties about climate change have fueled a growing interest in how landscapes are formed and transformed across spans of time, from decades to millennia. While the …
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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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Hammel, T. (2019)
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a …
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Morgese, G. (Ed), Pietro Lombardo, G. (Ed), Vande Kemp, H. (Ed) (2019)
In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. …
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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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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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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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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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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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