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Regimental Practice
by John Buchanan, M.D.:
An 18th-century Medical
Diary and Manual
(The History of Medicine in Context)
Paul Kopperman (ed)
Ashgate, 2012
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Ethical Adaption to Climate Change:
Human Virtues of the Future.
Allen Thompson
(co-editor with
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer)
MIT Press, 2012
"...The insights of ecology and the demands of justice are bound together by the increasingly influential idea of virtue, and the grounding of all this in institutional redesign makes this one of the most original climate change books of recent times."
--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK
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Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social
Construction of Science
Mary Jo Nye
University of Chicago Press, 2011.
“This long-awaited volume is a masterpiece of historical research, cultural and political exposition, and analytical insight.”
--Dieter Hoffmann,
Max Planck Institute for the
History of Science in Berlin
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Promise and Peril:
America at the Dawn
of a Global Age
Christopher McKnight Nichols,
Harvard University Press, 2011
"Nichols has accomplished a major feat, demonstrating that isolationism was a far richer and more complex intellectual tradition than its critics have ever imagined—one that still speaks to our own time...”
—Jackson Lears, The Nation
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Moral Ground:
Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Kathleen Dean Moore,
Trinity University Press, 2011
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Essays and Address, 1906-1929
David Luft,
(Translator and Editor)
Purdue University Press, 2011
"David S. Luft’s richly contextualized and evocative translations...offer a fresh resource to those outside the German language in the study of modernism and Luft’s choice of essays and addresses make this compendium a long overdue resource..."
-- Robert Dassanowsky,
University of Colorado
at Colorado Springs
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Nature's Northwest
The North Pacific Slope in
the Twentieth Century
William Robbins
(co-author with OSU History
Alumnus Katrine Barber)
University of Arizona Press, 2011
"Echoing themes from Robbins's earlier work, this synthesis situates Oregon state history within a broader, transnational context..."
-- Max G. Geier,
Western Oregon University;
H-Net Reviews
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Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Anita Guerrini,
(co-editor with
Patricia Fumerton & Kris McAbee)
Ashgate, 2010
"Early modern English broadside ballads hovered between oral and print traditions, text and song, artifact and performance, high and low entertainment, and truth and fiction. The chapters in this diverse collection engage with the liminality of ballad culture from 1500 to 1800 in England and the New World..."
Sarah F. Williams, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Volume 35, Number 2, Fall 2011. |
The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fancy in the Scientific Revolution
Lisa Sarasohn,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
"Sarasohn provides by far the fullest and most detailed account of Margaret Cavendish's natural philosophy to date, making thsi book indispensable reading for all scholars not only of Cavendish, but of early modern scientific culture."
—Rebecca Bullard,
Review of English Studies |
