New Books in the History of Science
A podcast by New Books Network
747 Episodes
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Philip W. Clements, "Science in an Extreme Environment: The American Mount Everest Expedition" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
Published: 6/28/2019 -
Daniel Nemser, "Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2017)
Published: 6/28/2019 -
Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Published: 6/25/2019 -
David Munns, "Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
Published: 6/24/2019 -
David Munns, "Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
Published: 6/24/2019 -
Terence Keel, "Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Published: 6/17/2019 -
Karin Rosemblatt, "The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950" (UNC Press, 2018)
Published: 5/9/2019 -
Nikolai Krementsov, "With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia" (Open Book Publishers, 2018)
Published: 5/2/2019 -
Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Published: 4/17/2019 -
Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Published: 4/4/2019 -
Gregory Dawes, "Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science" (Routledge, 2016)
Published: 3/18/2019 -
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Published: 2/26/2019 -
Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computing in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2018).
Published: 2/19/2019 -
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Published: 2/6/2019 -
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Published: 1/25/2019 -
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)
Published: 1/11/2019 -
Megan Finn, "Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters" (MIT Press, 2018)
Published: 1/8/2019 -
Audra J. Wolfe, "Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Published: 12/27/2018 -
Brian Crim, "Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
Published: 12/21/2018 -
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Published: 12/19/2018
Interviews with historians of science about their new books