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University of Cambridge

25 posts

Peruvian Agrarian Reform, 1968–1975

  • Tony Wood
  • 6 minute read
A review of Representations of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform, 1968–1975, by Anna Cant. More than four decades on, the Peruvian…
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The Public Life of Longitude in 18th-c. England

  • Florence Grant
  • 7 minute read
A review of The Wanton Line: Hogarth and the Public Life of Longitude, by Katy Barrett. This dissertation was written…
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Geoarchaeological Change in North China

  • Brian Lander
  • 6 minute read
Pre-Yangshao Agriculture and Landscape Change in North China A review of “Geoarchaeological Investigation of Pre-Yangshao Agriculture, Ecological Diversity and Landscape…
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Geology & Neoclassical Aesthetics

  • Noah Heringman
  • 13 minute read
A review of Geology and Neoclassical Aesthetics: Visualizing the Structure of the Earth in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain,…
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Invisible Technicians in Paleontology Labs

  • Park Doing
  • 7 minute read
A review of Invisible Technicians: A Sociology of Work, Workers, and Specimens in Paleontology Laboratories, by Caitlin Donahue Wylie. What…
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Nevil Maskelyne & the Zenith Sector

  • Richard L. Kremer
  • 5 minute read
A review of Constructing an Instrument: Nevil Maskelyne and the Zenith Sector, 1760-1774, by Nicky Reeves. This study offers a…
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Slavery & Manumission in Ottoman Galata, 1560-72

  • Joshua M. White
  • 13 minute read
A review of Slaves without Shackles: Forced Labour and Manumission in the Galata Court Registers, 1560-1572, by Nur Sobers-Khan. For…
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Eugenics in Britain, Germany & the US

  • Alison Bateman-House
  • 6 minute read
A review of British, German, and American Eugenicists in Transnational Context, c. 1900-1939, by Bradley W. Hart. Bradley Hart’s British,…
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Automatic Writing in France 1857-1930

  • Andrea Graus
  • 7 minute read
A review of Scripting the Mind: Automatic Writing in France, 1857-1930, by Alexandra Katerina Bacopoulos-Viau. This excellent dissertation by Alexandra…
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Traditional Chinese Mathematics in the PRC

  • Jia-Ming Ying
  • 5 minute read
A review of You Fight Your Way, I Fight My Way: Wu Wen-Tsun and Traditional Chinese Mathematics, by Jiří Hudeček.…
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