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Volume 49 - December 2016

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Caroline Grigson , Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England, 1100–1837. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-19-871470-5. £25.00 (hardback).
Katherine McAlpine
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10 October 2016, pp. 485-487
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Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson , Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 209. ISBN 978-0-226-33998-6. £28.00/$40.00 (cloth).
Edward J. Gillin
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09 December 2016, pp. 649-651
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Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds.), Creationism in Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 276. ISBN 978-1-4214-1562-8. £26.00 (hardback).
John Hedley Brooke
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16 March 2016, pp. 131-132
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Joris Vandenriessche, Evert Peeters and Kaat Wils (eds.), Scientists’ Expertise as Performance: Between State and Society, 1860–1960. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-8489-3527-3. £60.00 (hardback).
William Thomas
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29 June 2016, pp. 303-304
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Hjalmar Fors , The Limits of Matter: Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 241. ISBN 978-0-266-19499-8. £28.00 (hardback)
Francesco G. Sacco
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10 October 2016, pp. 487-488
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Mark Francis and Michael W. Taylor (eds.), Herbert Spencer: Legacies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 284. ISBN 978-1-84465-4. £65.00 (hardback).
Gowan Dawson
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16 March 2016, pp. 132-133
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M. Alper Yalçinkaya, Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-18420-3. $50.00 (hardback).
Kostas Tampakis
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29 June 2016, pp. 304-306
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Erik Linstrum , Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 309. ISBN 978-0-674-08866-5. £39.95 (hardback).
Mathew Thomson
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09 December 2016, pp. 651-652
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Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 223. ISBN 978-0-2262-3584-4. £24.50, $35.00 (hardback).
Patricia Fara
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16 March 2016, pp. 134-135
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James R. Fleming , Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. x + 296. ISBN 978-0-262-03394-7. £22.95 (cloth).
Linda Richter
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09 December 2016, pp. 652-654
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Stephen Gaukroger , The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739–1841. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-19-875763-4. £30.00 (hardback)
Raffaele Pisano
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10 October 2016, pp. 488-490
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Vanessa Ogle, The Global Transformation of Time, 1870–1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-674-28614-6. $39.95/£29.95 (hardback).
Scott Johnston
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29 June 2016, pp. 306-307
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Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military–Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-6747-2526-3. £30.00 (hardback).
Daniel Volmar
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16 March 2016, pp. 135-136
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Lynne Fallwell, Modern German Midwifery, 1885–1960. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 263. ISBN 978-1-84893-428-3. £60.00 (hardback).
Aya Homei
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29 June 2016, pp. 308-309
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Tom Crook and Mike Esbester (eds.), Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c.1800–2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv + 315. ISBN 978-1-137-46744-7. £63.00 (hardback).
Ryan Ross
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09 December 2016, pp. 654-655
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Alun Withey , Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refined Bodies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. x + 140. ISBN 978-1-137-46747-8. £45.00 (hardback).
Caitlín Doherty
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10 October 2016, pp. 490-491
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Robert Brain, The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. Pp. xxxii + 348. ISBN 978-0-295-99320-1. $50.00 (hardback).
James F. Stark
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29 June 2016, pp. 309-311
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Sofie Lachapelle , Conjuring Science: A History of Scientific Entertainment and Stage Magic in Modern France. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-137-49768-0. £60.00 (hardback).
Laura Tradii
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10 October 2016, pp. 491-492
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Theodore Arabatzis , Jürgen Renn and Ana Simões (eds.), Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015. Pp. vii + 383. ISBN 978-3-319-14552-5. £93.50 (hardback).
Kostas Tampakis
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09 December 2016, pp. 655-657
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Ulf Schmidt, Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxi + 637. ISBN 978-0-1992-9979-9. £25.00 (hardback).
Alex Mankoo
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16 March 2016, pp. 136-138
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