THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Volume 45 - Special Issue 04 - December 2012
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Table of Contents
Research Articles
Introduction: British nuclear culture JONATHAN HOGG, CHRISTOPH LAUCHT The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 479 – 493 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001008 (About doi) Published Online on 02nd November 2012
What is British nuclear culture? Understanding Uranium 235 JEFF HUGHES The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 495 – 518 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001021 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
‘Never a credible weapon’: nuclear cultures in British government during the era of the H-bomb RICHARD MAGUIRE The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 519 – 533 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001033 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
‘The family that feared tomorrow’: British nuclear culture and individual experience in the late 1950s JONATHAN HOGG The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 535 – 549 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001045 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Safeguarding the atom: the nuclear enthusiasm of Muriel Howorth PAIGE JOHNSON The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 551 – 571 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001057 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual for an atomic age, 1946–1956 RALPH DESMARAIS The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 573 – 589 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001069 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Atoms for the people: the Atomic Scientists' Association, the British state and nuclear education in the Atom Train exhibition, 1947–1948 CHRISTOPH LAUCHT The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 591 – 608 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001070 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
‘The monster’? The British popular press and nuclear culture, 1945–early 1960s ADRIAN BINGHAM The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 609 – 624 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001082 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and changing attitudes towards the Earth in the nuclear age JODI BURKETT The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 625 – 639 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001094 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Seven Days to Noon: containing the atomic threat DAVID SEED The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 641 – 652 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001100 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Protect/Protest: British nuclear fiction of the 1980s DANIEL CORDLE The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 653 – 669 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001112 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Essay Review
Observations on observations John V. Pickstone The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 671 – 675 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001367 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Book Reviews
Darrigol, A History of Optics: From Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 327. ISBN 978-0-19-964437-7. £35.00 (hardback). Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 678 – 679 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001148 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Netz, Noel, Tchernetska and Wilson (eds.), The Archimedes Palimpsest. 2 volume set. Volume 1: Catalogue and Commentary; Volume 2: Images and Transcription. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Walters Art Museum, 2011. Pp. viii + 342; x + 344. ISBN 978-1-107-01457-2. £150/$215.00 (hardback). Serafina Cuomo The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 679 – 681 doi: 10.1017/S000708741200115X (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
McWilliams, Magical Thinking: History, Possibility and the Idea of the Occult. London: Continuum, 2012. Pp. x + 187. ISBN 978-1-4411-1697-0. £65.00 (hardback). Claire Fanger The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 681 – 682 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001161 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Fletcher, A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’. With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xxxiv + 607. ISBN 978-90-04-20712-7. €184.00 (hardback). Daniel Stolzenberg The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 683 – 685 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001185 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Ferreiro, Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World. New York: Basic Books, 2011. Pp. xix + 353. ISBN 978-0-465-01723-2. $28.00 (hardback). Patricia Fara The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 685 – 686 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001197 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Kutzinski and Ette (eds.), Alexander von Humboldt. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xxvi + 519. ISBN 978-0-226-46568-5. £45.00 (hardback). Alison E. Martin The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 686 – 687 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001203 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Fyfe, Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 313. ISBN 978-0-226-27651-9. £32.50 (hardback). Gowan Dawson The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 687 – 688 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001215 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Russell and Hudson, Early Railway Chemistry and Its Legacy. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012. Pp. xiii + 193. ISBN 978-1-84973-326-7. £29.99 (paperback). Robert G.W. Anderson The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 688 – 690 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001227 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Qureshi, Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. vii + 382 ISBN 978-0-266-70096-0. £29.00 (hardback). Efram Sera-Shriar The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 690 – 691 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001239 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Abt, American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 510. ISBN 978-0-226-00110-4. £29.00 (hardback). William Carruthers The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 691 – 692 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001240 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Maria Lane, Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN 978-0-226-47078-8. $45.00 (hardback). Joshua Nall The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 692 – 694 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001252 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Sloan and Fogel (eds.), Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 319. ISBN 978-0-226-76783-3. £22.50 (paperback). Neeraja Sankaran The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 694 – 695 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001264 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Derry, Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 281. ISBN 978-1-4426-4395-6. $65.00 (hardback). Dominic Berry The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 695 – 697 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001276 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
McLaren, Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 235. ISBN 978-0-226-56069-4. $55.00 (hardback). Jane Maienschein The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 697 – 699 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001288 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Regal, Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xi + 249. ISBN 978-0-2300-11147-9. £55.00 (hardback). Sebastian Normandin The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 699 – 700 doi: 10.1017/S000708741200129X (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Bentley, The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 381. ISBN 978-1-107-00397-2. £50.00 (hardback). Frank A.J.L. James The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 700 – 701 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001306 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 232. ISBN 978-0-520-26278-2. £41.95 (hardback). Howard Chiang The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 702 – 703 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001318 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Mahoney, Histories of Computing. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 250. ISBN 978-0-674-05568-1. £36.95 (hardback). Mark Priestley The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 703 – 704 doi: 10.1017/S000708741200132X (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 326. ISBN 978-0-262-01649-0. £22.95 (hardback). Nancy Anderson The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 704 – 706 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001331 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Hughes, Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 215. ISBN 978-0-226-35918-2. $25.00 (hardback). Duncan Wilson The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 706 – 707 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001343 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Wynne, Rationality and Ritual: Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear Decision-Making. London and Washington, DC: Earthscan, 2011. Pp. xxvii + 228. ISBN 978-1-84971-161-6. £24.99 (paperback). Max K. Wallis The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 708 – 709 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001355 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Books Received
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 711 – 713 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001136 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Index Of Authors
Index of authors The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 715 – 715 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001124 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Books Reviewed
Books reviewed The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 717 – 719 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001379 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013
Hirai, Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life, and the Soul. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii + 227. ISBN 978-90-04-218171-0. €99.00 (hardback). Anna Marie Roos The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Special Issue 04 – Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , December 2012, pp 682 – 683 doi: 10.1017/S0007087412001173 (About doi) Published Online on 21st January 2013