Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of those who created the movement and those who tried to thwart them. Concentrating on the decades since…
Paperback – 2019-08-01
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American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
Prior to 1914, wars had been comparatively small affairs using relatively small amounts of military supplies and, despite warnings, British industry and government initially failed to grasp the scale of the war with demand for munitions soon outstripping supply. This book chronicles the build-up of…
Hardback – 2019-07-31
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Routledge Studies in First World War History
This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology,…
Hardback – 2019-06-28
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Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order to…
Hardback – 2019-06-19
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Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
This book charts the development of nanotechnology in relation to society from the early years of the twenty first century. It offers a sustained analysis of the life of nanotechnology, from the laboratory to society, from scientific promises to societal governance and attempts to modulate…
Hardback – 2019-06-01
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History and Philosophy of Technoscience
This book discusses key figures in history in the context of their time, takes students on a carefully-formulated, chronological journey through the build-up of psychology from ancient times to the present, and seeks to draw students into the way science is done, rather than merely presenting them…
Paperback – 2019-05-24
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Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective. Yet, since its gradual formation as a research field, the question of how to suitably integrate both perspectives remains open. This volume…
Hardback – 2019-05-08
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History and Philosophy of Technoscience
In the twenty-first century we speak of a geospatial revolution, but over one hundred years ago another mapping revolution was in motion. Women’s lives were in motion: they were playing a greater role in public on a variety of fronts. As women became more mobile (physically, socially, politically),…
Paperback – 2019-05-07
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Studies in Historical Geography
Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion. The book discusses the condition of the earth (as it was at the time of publication) and the future prospects of the planet, arguing that neither the conventional "mechanistic" view…
Hardback – 2019-04-30
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Routledge Revivals
This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of…
Hardback – 2019-04-24
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Routledge Environmental Humanities
The concept of ’natural heritage’ has become increasingly significant with the threat of dwindling resources, environmental degradation and climatic change. As humanity’s impact on the condition of life on earth has become more prominent, a discernible shift in the relationship between western…
Paperback – 2019-04-17
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The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as…
Hardback – 2019-04-04
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Routledge Studies in Cultural History