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    New Books in the History of Science

    New Books in the History of Science

    New Books in the History of Science

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    653 episodes
    Language:
    English
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    Podcast

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    Interviews with historians of science about their new books
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 653 episodes

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    Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

    Rustam Alexander's Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 (Pa...

    56 minutes
    		May 06, 2024

    Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the...

    39 minutes
    		May 01, 2024

    Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"

    What does it mean to be human? What do we know about the true history of humankind? In ...

    68 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

    Alexander Statman's book A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science (...

    50 minutes
    		Apr 25, 2024

    Jessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)

    Covering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep soci...

    41 minutes
    		Apr 21, 2024

    Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)

    Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical fo...

    28 minutes
    		Apr 20, 2024

    Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The end...

    84 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024

    Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

    The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and pr...

    80 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024

    Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to sa...

    77 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024

    Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes: A Philosophi...

    69 minutes
    		Apr 14, 2024