![Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times]( "Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times")
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Lynteris, C. (Ed) (2021)
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and …
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![Cold War Social Science]( "Cold War Social Science")
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Solovey, M. (Ed), Dayé, C. (Ed) (2021)
This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and national …
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![Bearing Witness]( "Bearing Witness")
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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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![The Historiography of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819–21]( "The Historiography of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819–21")
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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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![Science, Culture and National Identity in Francoist Spain, 1939–1959]( "Science, Culture and National Identity in Francoist Spain, 1939–1959")
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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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![Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona]( "Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona")
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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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![‘Africa Forms the Key’]( "‘Africa Forms the Key’")
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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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![Militarizing Outer Space]( "Militarizing Outer Space")
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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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![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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![A Political History of Big Science]( "A Political History of Big Science")
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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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![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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![Geography in Britain after World War II]( "Geography in Britain after World War II")
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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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![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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![Shaping Natural History and Settler Society]( "Shaping Natural History and Settler Society")
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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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![Histories of Dreams and Dreaming]( "Histories of Dreams and Dreaming")
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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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![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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