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Alison Bashford
Two hundred years of modern science and culture, told through one family history
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A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
This momentous biography tells the story of…
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Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Australia examines the first European encounters with Australia and its Indigenous people, and the subsequent colonisation of the land by the British in…
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Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Australia covers the period 1901 to the present day. It begins with the first day of the twentieth century, which saw the birth…
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Recent Ebola outbreaks have focussed the world’s attention on disease and quarantine. In this first global history of quarantine, an international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems…
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Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley (…
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Global Population traces the idea of a world population problem as it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. The growth and distribution of the human population over the planet’s…
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The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history.
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In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico- penal sites of isolation from the asylum to the penitentiary, Isolation looks at less well-known sites, from leper villages…
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history. Volume 1 examines Australia’s indigenous and colonial history. Volume 2 traces developments from the Federation through to the…
Alison Bashford,Claire Hooker
This work explores cultural responses to infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the 19th and 20th centuries. It investigates the use of contagion as a concept in postmodern conceptualizations…
Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of ‘contagion’ as a concept in postmodern research.
Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum…
Carolyn Strange,Alison Bashford
Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) was a geographer, anthropologist, and world explorer. His travels took him from Captain Scott’s final expedition in Antarctica to every continent on earth.
This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them…
Alison Bashford,Joyce E. Chaplin
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous…
This collection presents a new vision of world history, focused not on the land but on the 70% of the Earth’s surface covered by water. Leading experts introduce the history…
A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.
This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic…
