School Meals & Nutrition Policy in the U.S.
A review of Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Meals and Nutrition Policy in the United States, 1900-1946, by Andrew R. Ruis. To paint…
Tag Archives: 2011 Dissertation
Blood Donation & the Idea of Altruism
A review of A Genealogy of the Gift: Blood Donation in London, 1921-1946, by Nicholas Whitfield. Nicholas Whitfield opens his dissertation with the juxtaposition of…
The Buddha’s Many Biographies, 17th-18th c.
A review of Adapting the Buddha’s Biographies: A Cultural History of the Wish-Fulfilling Vine in Tibet, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, by Nancy Grace Lin. Scholars…
A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in China
A review of A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China, by Nicole D. Willock. How have religion, modernity, and nationality been shaped by Tibetans in…
Histories of Earth, 1680-1740
A review of The Living Rock: Natural, Human, and Sacred Histories of the Earth, 1680-1740, by Lydia Barnett. How do you write a history of…
Qing Formations: Two New Perspectives
A two-part review of Chinese Officials in the Hung Taiji Period (1627-1643) [皇太極時期的漢官 (1627-1643)], by TSAI SUNG-YING [蔡松穎]; and The Juridical System of the Qing…
Monsters, Obstetrics & Antenatal Life in Edinburgh
A review of Teratology and the Clinic: Monsters, Obstetrics, and the Making of Antenatal Life in Edinburgh, c.1900, by Salim Al-Gailani. Salim Al-Gailani’s dissertation explores…
Modern Weddings for a Modern China
A review of Balancing Rites and Rights: The Social and Cultural Politics of New-Style Weddings in Republican Shanghai, 1898-1953, by CHARLOTTE LUCIA COWDEN. In her…