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Citizens of the Chemical Complex: Industrial Expertise and Science Philanthropy in Imperial and Weimar Germany
(2014-02-25)
This dissertation is a social and cultural history of chemical industrialists and their role in the development of both science and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the case of Germany, ...
Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690
(2014-06-06)
Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690 is the first sustained examination of the diagrams and illustrations that constituted the seventeenth century's new physics. When René Descartes ...
Found at Sea: Mapping Ships on the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Ocean
(2014-06-06)
"Found at Sea" is a historical study centered on the Atlantic Ocean. This dissertation employs ships' logbooks in combination with a GIS mapping methodology to address the ocean, itself, as a site for historical developments. ...
Towards a New Hospital: Architecture, Medicine, and Computation, 1960-75
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation provides an account of how computing left behind its origins in academic and military research to become part of the hospital's equipmental setting. I examine the efforts of reformers, including administrators, ...
Indian Insanes: Lunacy in the 'Native' Asylums of Colonial India, 1858-1912
(2013-10-18)
The new Government of India did not introduce legislation for `native' lunacy in colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about Indian insanes had already occurred in 1856, ...
Soul Sleepers: A History of Somnambulism in the United States, 1740-1840
(2014-06-06)
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Making Minds Modern: The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, 1898-1970
(2013-03-08)
This dissertation describes how innovations in the science of mind -- laboratory measurements, psychoanalysis, and mental testing -- changed the ideas and institutions of British imperialism. Psychology did not function ...
Best Interests: Feminists, Social Science, and the Revaluing of Working Mothers in Modern America
(2013-03-06)
This dissertation traces the formation, development, and deployment of arguments in favor of maternal employment from the years before World War II through the mid-1990s. Drawing on academic journals, popular periodicals, ...
Dinosaurs: Assembling an Icon of Science
(2013-03-08)
This dissertation examines how the modern dinosaur—fully mounted, freestanding assemblages of vertebrate fossils such as we are accustomed to seeing at the natural history museum—came into being during the late 19th and ...
From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present
(2013-09-30)
This dissertation joins the history of science and medicine with environmental history to explore the language of health in environmental politics. Today, in government policy briefs and mission statements of environmental ...