Books

A Fresh Perspective on Colonial-Era Science, Climate, and Empire in Malaysia and Singapore

Uncovers the Colonial Ambitions and Moral Ambiguities of Spaceflight

How Natural History Connected Diverse Individuals and Information from Across the Globe

A Critical Perspective on Ecological Concepts Informing Historical and Current Practices of Health Security

Tyndall Continues Scientific Experiments and Marries Louisa Hamilton

This book examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Orlando Bentancor ties the colonizers’ attempts to justify the abuses wrought on the environment and the indigenous population to their larger ideology concerning mining, science, and the empire’s rightful place in the global sphere. To Bentancor, their presuppositions were a major turning point for colonial expansion and paved the way to global mercantilism.

How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Positions Bartram’s Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

How Multimedia Influenced Relationships between Evolutionary Studies and Religion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Reexamines the Work and Legacy of One of the Most Important Figures of the Victorian Era

Considers the Entangled Human-Animal Relationship of a Complex Multispecies World

Explores the Early Life and Career of a Figure Central to the Development of Modern Scientific Practice

Revisiting the Origins, Development, and Popularization of the “Conflict Thesis”

A New Physiological History of Biotechnology

How Everyday Citizens Played an Integral Role in the Development of NASA’s Space Shuttle