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Creative Niche Scientists: Women Educators in North American Museums, 1880-1930
Educational opportunities for women in the second half of the nineteenth century expanded their aspirations even as changing professional developments
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Kohlstedt, S., Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role in Reframing North American Museums, 1880-1930, Centaurus (52, 2013), 153–174
Domesticating Air—The Material History of Breathing Safely
This project, conducted with Marie-Thebaud Sorger (CNRS-Paris), seven scholars from Paris, London, Oxford, Berlin, Naples, and Santander, examines the
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Coevolutionary Approaches to the Anthropocene
How can knowledge of long-term human-environmental interactions be developed and transformed so that it is relevant to the environmental problems of t
Greek Middle Class Women and the Transmission of Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Poly Giannakopoulou's project focused on women’s involvement in science in Greece during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at a time
Disaster Research and Preparedness and Global Transfer of Knowledge
This research project served as an attempt to develop a historical account of disaster research and expertise in various contexts. Disaster research,
A Global History of Human Teeth
Much has been written on the history of dentistry but not as much has been written on the history of the human teeth. The first aim of this project wi
Early Vernacular Medical Books: Making, Users and Uses, Impact
It is well known that early vernacular medical texts exercised a huge appeal on lay readers in the early age of print. But we still know very little a
Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Household Recipe Books in Early Modern England
When Mary Cholmeley married Henry Fairfax in 1627, nestled amongst the possessions she carried to her new home in Yorkshire was a leather-bound notebo
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Leong, E., Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household, Centauru
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft präsentiert die Convivencia-Projekte des MPIWG und weiterer Max-Planck-Institute
Zum ArtikelArticle by Max Planck Society explores MPIWG Convivencia project with other Max Planck Institutes
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