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Scientific History Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War

Aronova Elena

ISBN: HB: 9780226761381, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of "big history" are calling for a reassessment of long-held a...

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Osiris, Volume 32 Data Histories

Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine, Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226538778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's...

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Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Literary Criticism

Fictions of the Cosmos Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century

Ait-Touati Frederique

ISBN: HB: 9780226011226, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 5 halftones, 2 line illus.

In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so...

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Osiris, Volume 25 Expertise: Practical Knowledge and the Early Modern State

Ash Eric H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226029399, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

This newest annual edition of "Osiris" brings together a variety of scholars to consider a topic of increasing interest in the history of science: expertise. Focusing specifically on the role expertise has played in the support, legitimation, and gro...

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