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The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept – the nature state – as a means for exploring the historical formation of that portion of the state dedicated to managing and protecting nature.
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One Hundred Years of Pressure : Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth century differed from previous periods.
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Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of one of the most influential and pervasive contemporary beliefs: “We are our brains.” Starting in the “Decade of the Brain” of the 1990s, “neurocentrism” became widespread in most Western and many non-Western societies. Formidable advances, especially in neuroimaging, have bolstered this “neurocentrism” in the eyes of the public and political authorities, helping to justify increased funding for the brain sciences.
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Building the General Relativity & Gravitation Community during the Cold War

This monograph presents a new perspective on the history of general relativity. It outlines the attempts to establish an institutional framework for the promotion of the field during the Cold War. Readers will learn the difficulties that key figures experienced and overcame during this period of global conflict.
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Florian Kräutli, Matteo Valleriani (2017)

CorpusTracer : a CIDOC database for tracing knowledge networks

Kräutli, F., & Valleriani, M. (2017). CorpusTracer: a CIDOC database for tracing knowledge networks. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33(2), 336-346. doi:10.1093/llc/fqx047.

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Martina Schlünder (2017)

Pastorale : sheep traffic in modern trauma surgery

Schlünder, M. (2017). Pastorale: sheep traffic in modern trauma surgery. In K. Asdal, T. Druglitrø, & S. Hinchliffe (Eds.), Humans, animals and biopolitics: the more-than-human condition (pp. 85-100). London: Routledge.

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Jia-Ou Song, Dagmar Schäfer (2017)

Interpreting the collection and display of contemporary science in Chinese museums as a reflection of science in society

Song, J.-O., & Schäfer, D. (2017). Interpreting the collection and display of contemporary science in Chinese museums as a reflection of science in society. In A. Boyle, & J.-G. Hagmann (Eds.), Challenging collections: approaches to the heritage of recent science and technology (pp. 88-102). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.

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Pietro Daniel Omodeo (2017)

Laukhards Dissertation über Giordano Bruno im Kontext der frühneuzeitlichen Bruno-Rezeption

Omodeo, P. D. (2017). Laukhards Dissertation über Giordano Bruno im Kontext der frühneuzeitlichen Bruno-Rezeption. In G. Naschert (Ed.), Friedrich Christian Laukhard (1757-1822): Schriftsteller, Radikalaufklärer und gelehrter Soldat (pp. 39-68). Paderborn: Schöningh.

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Collectivities and Individuals: Freud and Spencer

In the newly emerging discipline of psychology in the middle of the nineteenth century, individuals occupied center stage. Yet two seminal figures, He
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Florian Schmaltz (2017)

Chemical weapons research on soldiers and concentration camp inmates in Nazi Germany

Schmaltz, F. (2017). Chemical weapons research on soldiers and concentration camp inmates in Nazi Germany. In D. Hoffmann, J. Renn, F. Schmaltz, & M. Wolf (Eds.), One hundred years of chemical warfare: research, deployment, consequences (pp. 229-258). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_13.

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