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Volume 56 - December 2023

Book Review

Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil–Argentina Border Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-1088-4483-3. $103.00 (hardcover).

Paula De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 404. ISBN 978-0-8229-4649-6 $50.00 (hardback).

Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund, Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-0-8229-4659-5. $40.00 (hardback).

Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougal-Waters and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–2015 London: UCL Press, 2022. Pp. 643. ISBN 978-1-8000-8234-2. £60.00 (hardcover), £0.00 (open-access pdf). Doi:10.14324/111.9781800082328

Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-5609-0. $99.00 (hardback).

Peter H. Hoffenberg, A Science of Our Own: Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 206. ISBN 978-0-8229-4576-5. $45.00 (cloth).

Lachlan Fleetwood, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 294. ISBN: 978-1-009-12311-2. £75.00 (hardback).

Robert J. Sternberg and Wade E. Pickren (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 533. ISBN 978-1-1084-1869-0. $210.00 (hardback).

Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, Vera Rubin: A Life Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2021. Pp. x + 309. ISBN 978-0-6749-1919-8. £23.95 (hardback).

Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-colonial Siam Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 233. ISBN 978-1-5017-4015-2. $49.95 (hardback).

J. David Archibald, Critical Lives: Charles Darwin London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-7891-4440-6. $19.00 (paperback).

Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block (eds), The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-0-8229-4737-0. $60.00 (hardcover).

Claudine Cohen, Nos ancêtres dans les arbres: Penser l’évolution humaine Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2021. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-2-0211-7599-8. €23.00 (paperback).

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Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback). – CORRIGENDUM

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Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin and Alexis Wolf (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660 London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 658. ISBN 978-3-0307-8972-5. £149.99 (hardcover).

Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-6742-8136-3. £40.95 (hardcover).

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Felix Lüttge, Auf den Spuren des Wals: Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020. Pp. 279. ISBN 978-3-8353-3680-3. €28.00 (hardback).

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