Peruvian Agrarian Reform, 1968–1975
A review of Representations of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform, 1968–1975, by Anna Cant. More than four decades on, the Peruvian…
The Public Life of Longitude in 18th-c. England
A review of The Wanton Line: Hogarth and the Public Life of Longitude, by Katy Barrett. This dissertation was written…
Geoarchaeological Change in North China
Pre-Yangshao Agriculture and Landscape Change in North China A review of “Geoarchaeological Investigation of Pre-Yangshao Agriculture, Ecological Diversity and Landscape…
Geology & Neoclassical Aesthetics
A review of Geology and Neoclassical Aesthetics: Visualizing the Structure of the Earth in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain,…
Invisible Technicians in Paleontology Labs
A review of Invisible Technicians: A Sociology of Work, Workers, and Specimens in Paleontology Laboratories, by Caitlin Donahue Wylie. What…
Nevil Maskelyne & the Zenith Sector
A review of Constructing an Instrument: Nevil Maskelyne and the Zenith Sector, 1760-1774, by Nicky Reeves. This study offers a…
Slavery & Manumission in Ottoman Galata, 1560-72
A review of Slaves without Shackles: Forced Labour and Manumission in the Galata Court Registers, 1560-1572, by Nur Sobers-Khan. For…
Eugenics in Britain, Germany & the US
A review of British, German, and American Eugenicists in Transnational Context, c. 1900-1939, by Bradley W. Hart. Bradley Hart’s British,…
Automatic Writing in France 1857-1930
A review of Scripting the Mind: Automatic Writing in France, 1857-1930, by Alexandra Katerina Bacopoulos-Viau. This excellent dissertation by Alexandra…
Traditional Chinese Mathematics in the PRC
A review of You Fight Your Way, I Fight My Way: Wu Wen-Tsun and Traditional Chinese Mathematics, by Jiří Hudeček.…