Research articles

Revolutionary electricity in 1790: shock, consensus, and the birth of a political metaphor
Samantha Wesner
pp 257 - 275
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000297 Published Online on 29 July 2021

‘Ancient lore with modern appliances’: networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851–1853
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund, John Woitkowitz
pp 277 - 299
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000522 Published Online on 22 July 2021

Framing Asian atmospheres: imperial weather science and the problem of the local c. 1880–1950
Special Section: Introduction
Framing Asian atmospheres: imperial weather science and the problem of the local c. 1880–1950
Fiona Williamson
pp 301 - 304
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000054 Published Online on 12 July 2021

Research articles

Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886–1953
Sarah Carson
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 3, September 2021, pp 305 - 325
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000194 Published Online on 5 May 2021
‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms
Chi Chi Huang
pp 327 - 339
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000236 Published Online on 11 May 2021

Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kong c.1883–1914
Fiona Williamson
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 3, September 2021, pp 341 - 359
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000182 Published Online on 26 April 2021
Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939–1949
Mark E. Frank
pp 361 - 379
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000285 Published Online on 13 July 2021

Essay Review

The Anthropocene & the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability
Emily Hayes
pp 381 - 385
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000418 Published Online on 28 September 2021

Book reviews

Patrick Manning, A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 363. ISBN: 978-1-1084-7819-9, £59.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-1087-4709-7. £18.99 (paperback). - Amanda Rees and Charlotte Sleigh, Human London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-7891-4214-3. £12.95 (paperback).
Jon Turney
pp 387 - 389
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000546 Published Online on 28 September 2021

Michael Wheeler, The Athenæum: More than Just Another London Club New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-3002-4677-3. £35.00 (hardback)
Frank A.J.L. James
pp 390 - 391
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000558 Published Online on 28 September 2021

Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-4373-4. £35.00 (hardcover).
Ian Miller
pp 391 - 392
doi: 10.1017/S000708742100056X Published Online on 28 September 2021

Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0615-3. $82.50 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2267-0629-0. $27.50 (paperback).
Elliott Honeybun-Arnolda
pp 392 - 394
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000571 Published Online on 28 September 2021

Alexander Wragge-Morley, Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 272. ISBN: 978-0-2266-8086-6. $120.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2266-8072-9. $40.00 (paperback).
Javier Poveda Figueroa
pp 394 - 396
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000583 Published Online on 28 September 2021

J.B. Shank, Before Voltaire: The French Origins of ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics, 1680–1715 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 464. ISBN: 978-0-2265-0929-7. $55.00 (paperback).
Lucia Bucciarelli
pp 396 - 398
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000595 Published Online on 28 September 2021

Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. ISBN: 978-1-1087-8126-8. £90.00 (hardback).
Caitlin Doley
pp 398 - 399
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000601 Published Online on 28 September 2021

Malcolm Dick and Caroline Archer-Parré (eds.), James Watt, 1736–1819: Culture, Innovation, Enlightenment Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-1-7896-2081-8. £80.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-7896-2082-5. £24.99 (paperback).
Yohann Guffroy
pp 400 - 401
doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000613 Published Online on 28 September 2021