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Julia Sanchez Dorado
Julia Sánchez-Dorado is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin, In...
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The Roads not Taken: Neglected Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture in the Global South
As in Europe and North America, high-input agriculture expanded rapidly after 1945 in the global South. Funded initially by US foundations, what were
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MoreDagmar Schäfer in Deutschlandfunk Kultur podcast on her career path through China's history of technology
Go to Podcast (in German)Dagmar Schäfer in Deutschlandfunk Kultur über ihren Karriereweg und die Technikgeschichte Chinas
Zum Podcast (auf Deutsch)How Does Knowledge Spread? Evidence from Fertilizer in Late Imperial China
Technological progress is almost unanimously seen as central to agricultural and more generally economic development. However, the processes interveni
Accounting for Uncertainty: Prediction and Planning in Asian History
Tackling ideas of uncertainty and not-knowing has produced a variety of ways of modeling and reasoning material and intellectual cultures in Asian cul
Workshops, Accounting for Uncertainty, Preprint No. 496, Accounting for Uncertainty, Contributors, Anna Andreeva, Universität Heidelberg
Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics
From the 1960s to the 1980s, cancer was regarded by many scientists and government agencies as an environmental disease, one that could be controlled
Famine Plant Manuals in the Sinosphere (1406–1800)
This project examines the dynamics of knowledge production and transcultural interactions in the early modern Sinosphere by investigating the establis
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The Reception of Latitude and Longitude in Early Modern China, 1644–1900
This project examines Qing scholars’ effort to integrate conventional Chinese cartographical practice and the Jesuit-style latitude-longitude coordina