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Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: critical, ontological and epistemological approaches. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva,Jules Skotnes-Brown
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Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Helen Anne Curry
Accounts of twentieth-century agricultural industrialization in the United States and beyond often center the production and distribution of commercial F1 hybrid seed as a pivotal development. The commercialization of hybrid corn seed in the 1930s was initially heralded as a science-driven advance in agricultural productivity. However, since the 1970s "hybrid seed" has been linked to many perceived
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John Augustus Abayomi Cole and the Search for an African Science, 1885–1898 Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Colin Bos
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Diana LuftMedieval Welsh Medical Texts. Volume 1: The Recipes. 640 pp., apps., index. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020. £45 (paper); ISBN 9781786835482. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Nicole Archambeau
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Philip Beeley; Yelda Nasifoglu; Benjamin Wardhaugh (Editors). Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books. (Material Readings in Early Modern Culture.) 348 pp., illus. London: Routledge, 2020. $160 (cloth); ISBN 9780367609252. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Lisa Wilde
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Leonardo Ambasciano. An Unnatural History of Religions, Academia, Post-Truth, and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge. (Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation, 12.) xxii + 253 pp., notes, bibl., index. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. $102.60 (cloth); ISBN 9781350062382. Paper and e-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 James C. Ungureanu
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Dipesh Chakrabarty. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. 296 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $25 (paper); ISBN 9780226732862. Cloth and e-book available. Carolyn Merchant. The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability. 232 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2020. $26 Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 David Sepkoski
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A. Joan Saab. Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See. (Perspectives on Sensory History, 3.) 150 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. $69.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780271088105. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Rachael Z. DeLue
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Henry M. Cowles. The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey. 384 pp., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780674976191. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Alisa Bokulich,Federica Bocchi
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An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jemma Lorenat
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Pankaj Sekhsaria. Nanoscale: Society’s Deep Impact on Science, Technology, and Innovation in India. 182 pp., notes, refs. Bombay: AuthorsUpFront, 2020. ₹495 (cloth); ISBN 9387280705. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 John B. Lourdusamy
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Nick Hopwood; Rebecca Flemming; Lauren Kassell (Editors). Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day. xxxvi + 730 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. $39.99 (paper); ISBN 9781107658370. Cloth and e-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Lara Freidenfelds
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Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Cameron Brinitzer,Etienne Benson
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Surgery, Success, and the Role of the Patient in Cleft Palate Operations, circa 1800–1930 Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Claire Brock
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Sajjad Nikfahm; Fateme Savadi (Editors). Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī’s al-Risāla al-Muʿīniyya (The Muʿīniyya Treatise) and Its Supplement. (Critical Edition of the Persian Texts, 1.) 354 pp. Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2020. $23.04 (cloth); ISBN 9786002032034. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Amir-Mohammad Gamini
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Botany and the Science of History: Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Civilization, circa 1850–1900 Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Fabian Kraemer,Kärin Nickelsen,Dana von Suffrin
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Christa Jungnickel; Russell McCormmach. The Second Physicist: On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany. (Archimedes, 48.) xv + 408 pp., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2017. €176.79 (cloth); ISBN 9783319495644. Paper and e-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Lewis Pyenson
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Ilaria Scaglia. The Emotions of Internationalism: Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period. (Emotions in History.) 256 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. $85 (cloth); ISBN 9780198848325. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Geert Somsen
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Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–1635 Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Hyeok Hweon Kang
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Dániel Bárth. The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar. (Microhistories.) 304 pp. New York: Routledge, 2020. $160 (cloth); ISBN 9780367356798. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Hilaire Kallendorf
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Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund. Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century.) 312 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. $40 (cloth); ISBN 9780822946595. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Vanessa Heggie
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Kenny Cupers; Catharina Gabrielsson; Helena Mattsson (Editors). Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present. (Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment.) 448 pp., figs., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. $65 (cloth); ISBN 9780822946014. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Paul Walker
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Mary Anne Andrei. Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species. 264 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780226730318. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Helen Cowie
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Susan Wells. Robert Burton’s Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge. (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric.) xii + 211 pp., notes, bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. $84.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780271084671. Paper and e-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mary Ann Lund
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Ursula Klein. Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750–1850. 336 pp., 24 figs. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $40 (paper); ISBN 9780262539296. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Patrick Anthony
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Jacqueline Mitton; Simon Mitton. Vera Rubin: A Life. x + 310 pp., figs., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. $29.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780674919198. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jörg Matthias Determann
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Morris Low. Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xiii + 260 pp., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. $109.99 (cloth); ISBN 9783030471972. Paper and e-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Ruselle Meade
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Elizabeth A. Williams. Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950. 433 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $35 (paper); ISBN 9780226693040. Cloth and e-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Nadja Durbach
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Francesco G. Sacco. Real, Mechanical, Experimental: Robert Hooke’s Natural Philosophy. (International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, 231.) xiv + 201 pp., illus., app. Cham: Springer International, 2020. €71.68 (e-book); ISBN 9783030444518. Cloth and paper available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Jeremy Robin Schneider
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Andreas Feldtkeller; Uta Zeuge-Buberl. Networks of Knowledge: Epistemic Entanglement Initiated by American Protestant Missionary Presence in Nineteenth-Century Syria. (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv, 28.) 208 pp., illus., bibl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. €44 (paper); ISBN 9783515119689. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Rana Issa
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Cranial Compatibility: Phrenology, Measurement, and Marriage Assessment Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Carla Bittel
This essay examines phrenological tools as instruments of matchmaking and focuses on the personal ad as a site for producing and exchanging knowledge about individuals. It shows how cranial measurement produced character profiles for the purpose of judging suitable marriage partners and how users integrated those profiles into personal advertisements published in the Water-Cure Journal. A popular but
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Sophie Brockmann. The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838. xiv + 268 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £74.99 (cloth); ISBN 9781108421232. E-book available. Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Irina Podgorny
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Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Monica Azzolini
This essay examines how early moderns used birth horoscopes (genitures) to assess the compatibility of prospective spouses before marriage. Astrologers could probe the horoscope of an individual to investigate his or her present and future physical and moral qualities or compare charts to reveal the personal compatibility of a couple and help establish the best time to consummate their marriage. These
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Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity Isis (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Marina Mogilner
This essay explores the predicament of subaltern self-racializing in terms of European political and scientific modernity by tracing attempts to reconsider and appropriate the “Mediterranean race” concept on behalf of new and underrecognized nationalisms. The essay develops a perspective that brings together the least obvious global “coauthors” of the counternarrative of the “Mediterranean race”—such