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Volume 22 - July 1989

Book Reviews

Nicole Hahn Rafter (ed.). White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies, 1877–1919. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 382. ISBN 1-55553-030-3. £38.00.

Wolfgang Shivelbusch. Disenchanted Night: The Industrialisation of Light in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford, New York, Hamburg: Berg Publishers Ltd., 1988. Pp. 227. ISBN 0-85496-191-7. £18.50.

J. Heniger. Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636–1691) and Hortus Malabaricus. A Contribution to the History of Dutch Colonial Botany. Rotterdam and Boston: A.A. Balkema, 1986. Pp. xvi + 295. ISBN 90-6191-681-X. £50.00; $75.00; Dfl 150.00.

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John Nudos, Norman McMillan, Denis Weare & Susan McKenna Lawlor (eds). Science in Ireland 1800–1930: Tradition and Reform. Dublin: Trinity College, 1988. Pp. 208. ISBN 0-9513586-1-8. IR£10.00. (Available from Physics Department, Trinity College.)

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Roy Macleod & Philip Rehbock, (eds). Nature in its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 288. ISBN 0-8248-1120-8. $34.00.

Pascal Acot. Histoire de l'écologie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1988. ISBN 2-13-041414-8. FF 150.00.

William Hurst (ed.). The Making of Cognitive Science: Essays in honor of George A. Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 284. ISBN 0-521-34255-4, £25, $29.95.

Alan Charles Kors & Paul J. Korshin (eds). Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 290. ISBN 0-8122-8057-1. No price given.

Arthur Donovan (ed.). The Chemical Revolution. Essays in Reinterpretation. Osiris, 2nd series, vol. iv (1988). Pp. 236. Philadelphia: History of Science Society, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN 0-934235-11-2. $15. (paperback).

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F. B. Smith. The Retreat of Tuberculosis 1850–1950. London: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. 271. ISBN 0-7099-3383-5. £25.00.

Mitchell G. Ash & William W. Woodward (eds). Psychology in Twentieth-Century Thought and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. ix + 320. ISBN 0-521-32523-4. £30.00, $42.50.

Graham West. Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry. Cambridge: University Press, 1988. Pp. xv + 355. ISBN 0-521-33512-4. £40.00; $80.00.

Michael Ruse. Philosophy of Biology Today. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1988. Pp. x + 155. ISBN 0-88706-910-X. $29.50, $9.95.

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David L. Hull. Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 586. ISBN 0-226-36050-4. £31.95.

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Scott Atran et al., Histoire du Concept d'Espèce dans les Sciences de la VieParis: Guathier-Villars, 1987. Pp. xiii + 324. ISBN 2-900927-19-6. FF 150.00.

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