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101. The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology

     Edited by Thomas Söderquist

     Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

     More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and...

     Published October 27th 1997 by Routledge
102. A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times

     By Donald Hill

     It is impossible to understand the cultures and achievements of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs, without knowing something of their technology. Rome, for example, made advances in many areas which were subsequently lost and not regained for more than a millenium. This is a knowledgeable...

     Published November 21st 1996 by Routledge
103. Nutrition in Britain

     Science, Scientists and Politics in the Twentieth Century

     Edited by David Smith

     Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

     This volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays, based on original research, which focus on the history of nutrition science in Britain. Each chapter considers a different episode in the development and application of nutritional knowledge during the twentieth century. The...

     Published November 6th 1996 by Routledge
104. The Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art

     Primary Source Material on the Post-Industrial Revolution (1838-1880)

     Edited by James Mason, John Timbs, Charles W. Vincent

     Series: Early Sources in Reference

     Covering a momentus period in worldwide scientific discovery and technological advance, these concise sourcebooks provide information across the full spectrum of Victorian thought and endeavour, forming a chronological scientific encyclopaedia....

     Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
105. Women and Science

     An Annotated Bibliography

     By Marilyn B. Ogilvie, Kerry L. Meek

     Published June 30th 1996 by Routledge
106. Technoscience and Cyberculture

     Edited by Stanley Aronowitz

     Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life. The...

     Published November 20th 1995 by Routledge
107. Environment and History

     The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa

     By William Beinart, Peter Coates

     Series: Historical Connections

     The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler...

     Published July 12th 1995 by Routledge
108. Great Zimbabwe

     The Iron Age of South Central Africa

     By Joseph O. Vogel

     Published October 31st 1993 by Routledge
109. The Science of War

     Back to First Principles

     Edited by Brian Holden-Reid

     Series: The Operational Level of War

     Published August 4th 1993 by Routledge
110. Women and Technology

     An Annotated Bibliography

     By Cynthia G. Bindocci

     Published February 28th 1993 by Routledge