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Science/Medicine/Technology

Review of Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders (2023) by Isabel Huacuja Alonso

Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill

Review of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) by Bathsheba Demuth

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

Review of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (2019)

Review of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) by Conevery Bolton Valencius

Review of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World (2020)

Review of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World (2020)

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War – a debate between suffering and medical knowledge for the greater good

Cotton, Coal, and Capitalism: Review of Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation and On Barak’s Powering Empire

Book cover of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science by Christopher C. Sellers

Review of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (1997)

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden by Elizabeth Hennessy (2019)

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World By Ralph Bauer (2019)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide by C.J. Alvarez (2019)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

Book cover of Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo (2017)

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William Burrows (1998)

The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester (2005)

Digital History: A Guide by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (2006): New Archive (No. 18)

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, by Daniela Bleichmar (2012)

The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England 1660-1770, by Adrian Wilson (1995)

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination, by Joyce Appleby (2013)

Book cover of The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale

The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale (2010)

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe, by Glynis Ridley (2010)

Book cover of Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes

Great Books on Science & Technology – Light & Power

Book cover of People Are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali by Eric Silla

People Are Not the Same by Eric Silla (1998)

Great Books on Science Myth-Busters

Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp (2010)

Book cover of Aids & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer

AIDS & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer (1992)

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern (2003)

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  • Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill
  • IHS Workshop: “Whose Decolonization? The Collection of Andean Ancestors and the Silences of American History” by Christopher Heaney, Pennsylvania State University
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