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David Pretel
David Pretel is a historian specialising in global history, science, and technology studies, and...
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The Roads not Taken: Neglected Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture in the Global South
As in Europe and North America, high-input agriculture expanded rapidly after 1945 in the global South. Funded initially by US foundations, what were
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: The Eurasian Life of a Seventeenth-Century “European” Botanical Classic
In the 1650s, the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the biggest player in the global exchange economy centered on the Atlantic, developed a series of in
Animals and Entangled Epistemologies in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Epistemological change in early modern Europe has long been told as an internalist story. Even with the Iberian and global “turns” in the history of s
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
The founder of the Ming dynasty in China, Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-98), and his successors used translations and inter-cultural correspondences (or equival
A Permanent Revolution. Singapore as a Logistics City, 1848–1942
Logistics, both materially and metaphorically, is tied to histories of urbanization. As a managerial rationality and a material practice for reorganiz
Nature and Nation: Documentation and the Practice of Natural History at the Australian Museum, 1850-1890
From the earliest years of the Australian colony of New South Wales, natural history served as a vital lens and organising principle for colonists' en
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Political Epistemology of Earth System Science
This project studies the rather sudden framing of Earth system science in the 1980s as a hot field of interdisciplinary research devoted to studies of
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
This project explores the history of keeping elephants in captivity in Eastern Europe with a focus on how the trajectories of colonial trades in zoo s