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Creolised Science - Knowledge In The Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific

by Dorit Brixius

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 The first comprehensive study of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, Creolised Science explores how plants and practices adapted to a new environment and a new socio-cultural space. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, Brixius creates a truly global history of botanical knowledge.
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Observatory Experiment - Meteorology In Britain And Its Empire

by Simon Naylor

~~112,63€~~ 90,10€ 20% OFF

 In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. During the nineteenth century, meteorologists established or converted sites where observers and their instruments could be housed, where they collected and analysed data and developed meteorological theories. He examines a number of these sites around the British Empire, along with the governmental, military and commercial networks connecting them. Taking many shapes to capture the weather in different environments, these observatories brought various social groups into contact with the practice of science, including sailors on naval surveying vessels, climbers ascending Scottish peaks, and families checking their rain gauges at home. Through a study of these spaces, Naylor argues for the treatment of meteorology as an experimental observatory science, on which the development of knowledge about local, regional, national and global weather and climate relied.
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Science For Governing Japan'S Population

by Aya Homei

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 This major new study highlights the role of population sciences in turning Japan into a modern sovereign nation. Based on a range of local and state archives in Japan and in the United States, Aya Homei unpacks assumptions about the links between population, sovereignty, and science.
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The Gas Mask In Interwar Germany - Visions Of Chemical Modernity

by Peter (Michigan State University) Thompson

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 A history of the gas mask in Germany from first use in combat in 1915 to the eve of the Second World War. Peter Thompson traces how the development and proliferation of chemical protective technologies like the gas mask produced new subjective relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction.
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Science And Power In The Nineteenth-Century Tasman World - Popular Phrenology In Australia And Aotearoa New Zealand

by Alexandra (Deakin University, Victoria) Roginski

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 A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Innovatively using historical newspapers and other archives, Roginski traces the careers of a range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered.
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Applied Science - Knowledge, Modernity, And Britain'S Public Realm

by Robert Bud

~~117,93€~~ 94,34€ 20% OFF

 Robert Bud explores the rise and fall of 'applied science' as a class of scientific thought and practice. UK focussed, the study has international implications. Over two centuries, lay actors and scientists interacted through politics, stories and institutions to shape a category that would eventually fade in favour of 'technology'.
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The Observatory Experiment - Meteorology In Britain And Its Empire

by Simon (University Of Glasgow) Naylor

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 In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. Using previously understudied archival material, he reconstructs these sites and the research carried out in them, in doing so treating meteorology as an experimental observatory science.
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Creolised Science - Knowledge In The Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific

by Dorit Brixius

~~120,32€~~ 96,26€ 20% OFF

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 The first comprehensive study of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, Creolised Science explores how plants and practices adapted to a new environment and a new socio-cultural space. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, Brixius creates a truly global history of botanical knowledge.
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Applied Science - Knowledge, Modernity, And Britain'S Public Realm

by Robert (Science Museum, London) Bud

~~120,32€~~ 96,26€ 20% OFF

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 Robert Bud explores the rise and fall of 'applied science' as a class of scientific thought and practice. UK focussed, the study has international implications. Over two centuries, lay actors and scientists interacted through politics, stories and institutions to shape a category that would eventually fade in favour of 'technology'.
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India Population Report

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 Studies various aspects of population in India providing a holistic narrative by utilizing latest data and scientific evidence and explain the achievements so far and examine the challenges ahead in respective fields, while identifying thrust areas for further research and action.
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Science And Power In The Nineteenth-Century Tasman World - Popular Phrenology In Australia And Aotearoa New Zealand

by Alexandra (Deakin University, Victoria) Roginski

~~120,32€~~ 96,26€ 20% OFF

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 A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Innovatively using historical newspapers and other archives, Roginski traces the careers of a range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered.
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Technological Internationalism And World Order

by Waqar H. (Lahore University Of Management Sciences, Pakistan) Zaidi

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 A unique study of technology and international relations, Zaidi's book explores early attempts at the governance of aviation and atomic energy through international organizations such as the United Nations. It speaks to growing interest in the international governance of powerful technologies such as artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons.
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The Gas Mask In Interwar Germany - Visions Of Chemical Modernity

by Peter (Michigan State University) Thompson

~~141,95€~~ 113,56€ 20% OFF

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 A history of the gas mask in Germany from first use in combat in 1915 to the eve of the Second World War. Peter Thompson traces how the development and proliferation of chemical protective technologies like the gas mask produced new subjective relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction.
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Science For Governing Japan'S Population

by Aya Homei

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF
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Science For Governing Japan'S Population

by Aya Homei

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF
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Imperial Science - Cable Telegraphy And Electrical Physics In The Victorian British Empire

by Bruce J. (University Of Texas, Austin) Hunt

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 A vast network of telegraph cables spread around the globe in the second half of the nineteenth century. By showing how deeply this network shaped work in electrical physics, Bruce J. Hunt sheds new light on both the history of the Victorian British Empire and the relationship between science and technology.
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A Singular Remedy - Cinchona Across The Atlantic World, 1751â€“1820

by Stefanie (Universitat Heidelberg) Ganger

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 Stefanie GÃ¤nger explores how medical knowledge was shared across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World between 1751 and 1820. Centred on Peruvian bark or cinchona, from which quinine is derived, she provides fresh perspectives on knowledge exchange and connections in the realm of medicine between the Atlantic empires and beyond.
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The Politics Of Chemistry - Science And Power In Twentieth-Century Spain

by Agusti (Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona) Nieto-Galan

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 Nieto-Galan explores the links between chemistry and industrial and military projects, national rivalries and international endeavours in twentieth-century Spain. He unveils the chemists' positions of power and their engagement in fierce ideological battles, drawing out elements of co-production between science and politics.
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The Victorian Palace Of Science - Scientific Knowledge And The Building Of The Houses Of Parliament

by Edward J. (University Of Cambridge) Gillin

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 Edward J. Gillin provides a dramatic account of how the building of the Houses of Parliament involved the use of radically new science and how, while under construction, Parliament became a laboratory and place of scientific experiment. This book will be of value to readers interested in Victorian science, architecture, and politics.
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Science For Governing Japan'S Population

by Aya Homei

~~110,85€~~ 88,68€ 20% OFF

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 This major new study highlights the role of population sciences in turning Japan into a modern sovereign nation. Based on a range of local and state archives in Japan and in the United States, Aya Homei unpacks assumptions about the links between population, sovereignty, and science.
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Science On The Roof Of The World - Empire And The Remaking Of The Himalaya

by Lachlan Fleetwood

~~108,65€~~ 86,92€ 20% OFF

 When and how did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? Lachlan Fleetwood tells the story of the scientific, political and imaginative remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and imperial order in the nineteenth century.
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Science On The Roof Of The World - Empire And The Remaking Of The Himalaya

by Lachlan Fleetwood

~~108,65€~~ 86,92€ 20% OFF

 When and how did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? Lachlan Fleetwood tells the story of the scientific, political and imaginative remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and imperial order in the nineteenth century.
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Malarial Subjects - Empire, Medicine And Nonhumans In British India, 1820â€“1909

by Rohan (University Of Reading) Deb Roy

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 Rohan Deb Roy argues that British imperial rule occasioned the attribution of medical properties to a range of nonhuman entities including plants, quinine, and mosquitoes in nineteenth-century India. Malarial Subjects is a major new contribution to science studies and the histories of the British Empire, colonial medicine and South Asia. This title is also available as Open Access.
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The Lighthouse And The Observatory - Islam, Science, And Empire In Late Ottoman Egypt

by Daniel A. (University Of Wisconsin, Madison) Stolz

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 In this fresh take on astronomy's role in modern Islamic practice, science and technology are linked with the cultural, material, and political transformations of Ottoman Egypt in the nineteenth century.
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