Archiv für die Kategorie ‘Modern (Nineteenth Century to 1950)Book Reviews’

Review: Alexander R. Bay. Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease.

Review by: Sumiko Otsubo

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 448-449, June 2014.

Review: On Barak. On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt.

Review by: David Arnold

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 447-448, June 2014.

Review: Barbara J. Becker. Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy.

Review by: Jessica Ratcliff

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 449-450, June 2014.

Review: Michael Hagner. Der Hauslehrer: Die Geschichte eines Kriminalfalls: Erziehung, Sexualität und Medien um 1900.

Review by: Lutz Sauerteig

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 453-454, June 2014.

Review: Peter J. Bowler. Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin.

Review by: Piers J. Hale

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 450-451, June 2014.

Review: Dieter Hoffmann; Mark Walker; Ann M. Hentschel, eds. The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists between Autonomy and Accommodation.

Review by: Alexei Kojevnikov

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 454-455, June 2014.

Review: Adelene Buckland. Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology.

Review by: David Oldroyd

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 451-453, June 2014.

Review: Christian Holtorf. Der erste Draht zur Neuen Welt: Die Verlegung des transatlantischen Telegrafenkabels.

Review by: Simone Müller-Pohl

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 455-456, June 2014.

Review: Tong Lam. A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949.

Review by: Howard Chiang

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 456-457, June 2014.

Review: Elaine McKinnon Riehm; Frances Hoffman. Turbulent Times in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal.

Review by: Deborah Kent

Isis, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 457-458, June 2014.