British Journal for the History of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the History of Science is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
BJH volume 54 issue 3 Cover and Back matter12
Stratifying seamanship: sailors’ knowledge and the mechanical arts in eighteenth-century Britain9
BJH volume 54 issue 1 Cover and Front matter7
‘Who can tell me what potable water means?’ The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy5
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82301-0. $35.00 (paper).5
Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 987-1-4214-3874-0. $54.95 (hardback)5
BJH volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Back matter5
BJH volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
Marsha Morton and Ann-Marie Akehurst (eds), Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease since 1750: Capturing Contagion London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 270. ISBN 978-1-032-26107-2. £130.00 (hardback).4
Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-1070-9. £28.00/$35.00 (hardback).4
Timothy W. Lorek, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0. $34.95 (paperback).4
Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited3
Nancy Rose Marshall (ed.), Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, Pp. 365, ISBN 978-03
Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet's translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun'sMuqaddimah3
Raf de Bont, Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–1960 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. x + 373. ISBN 978-0-8229-4661-8. $55.00 (cloth).3
Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2266-0568-5. $32.00 (paperback).3
Cartoon diplomacy: visual strategies, imperial rivalries and the 1890 British Ultimatum to Portugal3
Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 283. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4735-6.3
Irina Podgorny, Florentino Ameghino y hermanos Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2021. Pp. 346. ISBN 978-987-628-598-8. AR$9,150.00 (softcover) - Irina Podgorny, Los Argentinos vienen de los peces: Ensa2
Fanny Gribenski, Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-82326-3. $55.00 (cloth).2
Antonio Stoppani's ‘Anthropozoic’ in the context of the Anthropocene2
Allan Esterson and David C. Cassidy, Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. Pp. 336. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3897-8. $19.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-22
Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James and Morag Shiach (eds.), Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century London: UCL Press, 2018. Pp. 438. ISBN 978-1-7873-5395-4. 2
Colin Webster, Tools and Organisms: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82877-0. $45.00 (cloth).2
Cyrus C.M. Mody, The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 422. ISBN 978-0-262-54361-3. $65.00 (paperback).2
Gisela Boeck and Alan J. Rocke, Lothar Meyer: Modern Theories and Pathways to Periodicity Cham: Birkhäuser, 2022. Pp. xi + 193. ISBN 978-0-303-78341-9. £79.99 (hardcover). - Gisela Boeck and Al2
The visual diplomacy of cancer treatments: the mediatic legacy of the Curies in the early transnational fight against cancer2
Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. ISBN: 978-1-1087-8126-8. £90.00 (hardbac2
Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin's early nineteenth-century collection landscape2
Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950–19802
Efran Sera-Shriar, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 972
Presidential Address ‘Some years of cudgelling my brains about the nature and function of science museums’: Frank Sherwood Taylor and the public role of the history of science2
Michel Anctil, Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 467. ISBN: 978-0-77352
Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics2
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-2267-3286-2. $25.00 (paperback).1
Jonathan Finn, Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence and the History of the Photo-finish Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 212. ISBN 978-0-2280-0343-4. CD$43.95 (clo1
J. Justin Castro and James A. Garza (eds), Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 282. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4748-6.1
Mitchell G. Ash, Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung 1989–2002 Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 394. ISBN 978-3-525-30209-5. €70.00 (hardcover). ISB1
Introduction: the issue of duplicates1
BJH volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Charting the hybrid architectural style of quantum theory1
Maria Cristina Galmarini, Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-1-5011
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781
The Pugwash scientists’ conferences, Cyrus Eaton and the clash of internationalisms, 1954–19611
Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).1
Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0615-3. $82.50 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2267-01
Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-8229-4609-0. $35.00 1
Toby Musgrave, The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. ISBN 978-0-3002-2383-5. $35.00 (hardco1
Kamlesh Mohan, Science and Technology in Colonial India London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 978-1-032-36479-7. £96.00 (hardback).1
Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886–19531
Eric Schatzberg, Technology: Critical History of a Concept Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-226-58397-6. $38.00 (paperback).1
Richard Noakes, Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 419. ISBN 978-1-3168-8243-6. £90.00 (hardcover).1
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 978-0-6-9123-379-6. £35.00 (hardcover).1
Malcolm Dick and Caroline Archer-Parré (eds.), James Watt, 1736–1819: Culture, Innovation, Enlightenment Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-1-7896-2081-8. £80.00 (hardback1
Rebecca Whiteley, Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-226-82312-6. $49.00 (cloth).1
R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain1
BJH volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Karel Čapek (ed. Jitka Čejková), R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-262-54450-4. $29.95 (paperback).1
Nuno Vila-Santa, Knowledge Exchanges between Portugal and Europe: Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th–17th Centuries) Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univer1
Mario Daniels and John Krige, Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 432. ISBN 978-0-226-81753-8. $40.00 (paper).1
Mauro L. Condé and Marlon Salomon, eds., Handbook for the Historiography of Science Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. Pp. xx + 530. ISBN 978-3-031-27509-8. £199.99 (ebook).1
BJH volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Alexander Statman, A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82576-2. $45.00 (cloth).1
Niche development: the International Foundation for Science and the road to Sweden1
Ran Zwigenberg, Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-82676-9. $35.00 1
Horizontal Chemistry1
Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (eds), The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-032-13916-6. £96.00 (hardback).1
Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–19141
BJH volume 54 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Warwick Anderson, Spectacles of Waste Cambridge: Polity, 2024. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-1-509-55741-7. £14.99 (paperback).1
D. Senthil Babu, Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-8-19-483160-0. ₹1895.00 (hardcover).1
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–19001
Roger Smith, Kinasthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 156. ISBN 978-1-032-43590-9. £48.99 (hardback).1
Bernard Lightman and Bennet Zon (eds.), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-3672-2842-2. £120.00 (hardback).1
Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon1
BJH volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Colouring flowers: books, art, and experiment in the household of Margery and Henry Power1
Ian Hesketh (ed.), Imagining the Darwinian Revolution Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-822-94708-0. $55.00 (hardcover).1
Sarah E. Naramore, Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2023. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-1-64825-069-9. £97.00 (hardcov1
Laura Mamo, Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82929-6. $35.00 (paper).1
Veronica Della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-4129-1. $65.00 (hardback).1
Emma K. Sutton, William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82898-5. $30.00 (paper).1
Claire Hickman, The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 238. ISBN 978-0-3002-3610-1. £30.00 (hardback).1
Aaron Bateman, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-262-54736-9. $60.00 (paperba1
Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-226-73160-5. $45.00 (cloth).1
Marci R. Baranski, The Globalization of Wheat Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9. $55.00 (hardcover).1
Medicine and the heavens in Padua's Faculty of Arts, 1570–16301
‘Impossible to provide an accurate estimate’: the interested calculation of the Ottoman public debt, 1875–18811
BJH volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Paula De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 404. ISBN 978-0-8229-4649-6 $50.00 (hardback).1
Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi and Marius Buning (eds.), Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 394. ISBN 978-0-262-54559-4. $65.00 (pape1
Grant Bollmer, The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. Pp. 290. ISBN 978-1-5179-1546-9. $28.00 (paperback).1
‘Like nets or cobwebs’: Kenelm Digby, Isaac Newton and the problem of rarefaction1
Lynn M. Thomas, Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-478-00642-8. $107.95 (cloth).1
Fabian Kraemer, A Centaur in London: Reading and Observation in Early Modern Science Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-1-4214-4631-8. $60.00 (hardcover).0
D.E. Willoughby Christopher, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 282. ISBN 978-1-469-67184-0. $99.000
Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-colonial Siam Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 233. ISBN 978-1-5017-4015-2. $49.95 (hardback).0
‘Super Bowl of the world conference circuit’? A network approach to high-level science and policy conferencing0
Arie Rip, Nanotechnology and Its Governance London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 158. ISBN 978-1-1386-1053-8. £130.00 (hardback).0
Gemma Almond-Brown, Spectacles and the Victorians: Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-1-5261-6135-2. £85.00 (hardco0
Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy0
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund, Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 230. ISB0
Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça, Of Jaguars and Butterflies: Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-1-80073-904-8. £89.00 (hardb0
Anna Marie Roos and Vera Keller (eds), Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-2-503-58806-3. €85.00 (hardback).0
Sebastián Gil-Riaño, The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-0-231-19435-8. £30.00 (paperb0
Adrian Johns, The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 504. ISBN 978-0-226-82148-1. $32.50 (cloth).0
Mark Solovey, Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 398. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3905-0. $50.00 0
Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-4373-4. £35.00 (hardcover).0
Tom Sharpe, The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning Wimborne Minster: The Dovecote Press, 2020. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-9955-4629-5. £20.00 (hardback).0
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Curious Devices and Mighty Machines: Exploring Science Museums London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-789-14639-4. £20.00 (hardback).0
Curating duplicates: operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–19260
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Patrick Manning, A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 363. ISBN: 978-1-1084-7819-9, £59.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-1087-47090
Representing noise: stacked plots and the contrasting diplomatic ambitions of radio astronomy and post-punk0
John K. Brown, Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4862-6. $35.95 (hardcover).0
The Anthropocene & the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability0
Elena Aronova, Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-22670
Rachel E. Walker, Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-2268-2256-3. $45.00 (cloth).0
Elizabeth Gansen, Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-5128-2456-8. $55.00
Climério Paulo da Silva Neto, Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Instruments and the First Bell Tests Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. Pp. 73. ISBN 978-3-031-29796-0. £39.99 (softc0
Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kongc.1883–19140
Alexander Jones and Liba Taub (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1, Ancient Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 642. ISBN 978-0-511-98014-5. £120.00 (hardback)0
Michael Batty, The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-262-54757-4. $45.00 (paperback).0
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Marie Richards (eds.), Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2023. Pp. 400
‘Seeing with one's own eyes’ and speaking to the mind: a history of the Wilson cloud chamber in the teaching of physics0
Robert J. Sternberg and Wade E. Pickren (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 533. ISBN 978-1-1084-1869-0. $20
The Society of Astrologers (c.1647–1684): sermons, feasts and the resuscitation of astrology in seventeenth-century London0
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Nothing but Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-4214-4757-5. $49.95 (hardcover0
Thomas B. Robertson and Jenny Leigh Smith (eds.), Transplanting Modernity: The Environmental Legacy of International Development Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 0
Alex Wellerstein, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-2260-2038-9. $35.00 (hardback).0
Framing Asian atmospheres: imperial weather science and the problem of the local c. 1880–19500
Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-81820
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback).0
Melissa Lo, Skepticism's Pictures: Figuring Descartes's Natural Philosophy University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-0-271-09482-3. $104.95 (hardcover).0
Unfriendly guardians: India's first nuclear leadership change in 19660
Steven French, A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-19-889795-8. £80.00 (hardcover).0
Sex, science and curated community at the World League for Sexual Reform 1929 conference0
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougal-Waters and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–2015 London: UCL Press, 2022. Pp. 643. ISBN 9780
Carola Sachse, Wissenschaft und Diplomatie: Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Feld der internationale Politik (1945–2000) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 594. ISBN 978-3-525-302060
Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-1-1086-8845-1. £17.99 (hardback).0
Kathleen M. Crowther, Policing Pregnant Bodies from Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-4214-4763-6. $29.95 (hardcover).0
Concluding conversation: decentring science diplomacy0
Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil–Argentina Border Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-1088-4483-3. $103.00 (ha0
Nicole Howard, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500–1750 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-4214-4368-3. $55.00 (hardcover).0
BJH volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation0
BJH volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 0
Audra Wolfe, Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 302. ISBN 978-1-4214-2673-0. $29.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4210
Picturing Chinese science: wartime photographs in Joseph Needham's science diplomacy0
Claudine Cohen, Nos ancêtres dans les arbres: Penser l’évolution humaine Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2021. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-2-0211-7599-8. €23.00 (paperback).0
‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus0
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-5261-7480-2. £85.00 (hardcover).0
Science by Nobel committee: decision making and norms of scientific practice in the early physics and chemistry prizes0
Gordon Barrett, China's Cold War Science Diplomacy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-1-1088-4457-4. £75.00 (hardback).0
James Hannam, The Globe: How the Earth Became Round London: Reaktion Books, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-78914-758-2. £16.99 (hardback).0
How the Glaishers pictured snowflakes0
‘Ancient lore with modern appliances’: networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851–18530
Elizabeth A. Williams, Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2266-9304-0. $35.00 (paperback0
Alex Csiszar, The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-2265-5323-8. $45.00 (hardbac0
Benjamin Labatut, The MANIAC New York: Penguin, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-593-65447-7. $28.00 (hardcover).0
David Zimmerman, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4875-4365-5. $85.00 (hardcover).0
C. Bruce Tarter, The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 453. ISBN 978-1-4214-2531-3. $79.95 (hardback0
BJH volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Andrei Pop, A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century New York: Zone Books, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-9354-0836-9. £25.00 (hardback).0
Lydia Barnett, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-2951-9. $52.00 (hardback). ISBN0
Martin Korenjak, Latin Scientific Literature, 1450–1850 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-19-886605-3. £120.00 (hardback).0
‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management0
‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms0
BJH volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Margarete Vöhringer, Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics: Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-032-53264-6. £104.00 (hardback).0
Jonathan R. Cole, Smoother Pebbles: Essays in the Sociology of Science New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Pp. 680. ISBN 978-0-231-21261-8. £35.00 (paperback).0
Mauricio Suárez, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-0-226-83004-9. $35.00 (paper).0
Thomas Simpson, The Frontier in British India: Space, Science and Power in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 298. ISBN 978-1-1088-7915-6. £75.00 (hardback).0
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Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–19200
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‘A method for safe transmission’: the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club0
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Satellite images as tools of visual diplomacy: NASA's ozone hole visualizations and the Montreal Protocol negotiations0
Caribou crossings: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, conservation, and stakeholdership in the Anthropocene0
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century0
‘A remedy for this dread disease’: Achille Sclavo, anthrax and serum therapy in early twentieth-century Britain0
Decentring histories of science diplomacy: cases from Asia0
Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth0
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