Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely
in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key …

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously
embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and …

The idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and
the Cold War. Höhler's study brings together technology, science and ecology to explore the …

Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed
dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition …

Exploration is a knowledge-producing enterprise. It can be under-taken for a range of
reasons—to seek resources, to conquer territory, to promote trade, to convert heathens, to …

Das vorliegende Buch ist aus der praktischen Seminararbeit hervor gegangen und für diese
gedacht. Es entspricht in der Auswahl der Themen, im Niveau der Darstellung und …

In recent years, historians have debated the prospect of offering new 'transnational'or
'global'perspectives in their studies. This paper introduces the reader to this special issue by …

In this essay I argue that in certain contemporaneous African contexts the boundary between
laboratory and life outside the laboratory is being transgressed in specific ways resulting in …

The difficult transition between the information and knowledge regimes of the precolonial
and colonial political systems of South Asia was largely, though not exclusively, mediated by …

Questo volume rappresenta un contributo di notevole interesse non solo nell'ambito delle
ricerche di ecologia storica, ma anche per l'utilità che le metodologie proposte rivestono più …