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Chemical Desires (1850–1929): Making the Architectural Materials of Modernity
A momentous change occurred within architecture after 1850: the chemicalization of modern building materials. This transformation emerged within nasce
Funding Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Betwixt the Somatic and the Mnemonic: Mapping Identities in the Global South, c. 1950–1980s
My project explores the scientific attempts to map identities in India and South Africa in the period between 1950 and the 1980s. Such efforts include
The Science of Learning, the Practice of Education: A History of Anschauungspädagogik, ca. 1806–1871
In the nineteenth century, historicism became a mainstay of the intellectual culture in the German-speaking world. Historicism, however, was not just
Geschäftsführender Direktor Jürgen Renn zum „Anthropocene Curriculum“, einem Kooperationsprojekt mit dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Zum ArtikelExecutive Director Jürgen Renn and “Anthropocene Curriculum” cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt featured in article on Anthropocene
Go to ArticleGendered and Ethnic Knowledge: Mrs. JMC Kloppenburg-Versteegh (1862–1948), an Example from the Dutch East Indies around 1900
Liesbeth Hesselink's project inspected domestic practices of recipe collecting and the transfer of medical knowledge in the colonial setting of the Du
Henri Ellenberger: Ethno-psychiatrie
L’«Ethno-psychiatrie» d’Henri Ellenberger est la première synthèse de langue française sur cette discipline hybride située entre psychiatrie et ethnologie, qui s’est développée après-guerre à la fin des empires coloniaux et qui a connu un succès foudroyant ces dernières décennies. Ce corpus présente un grand intérêt du point de vue de l’histoire des sciences humaines et sociales.
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The Earth Sciences and Field Research in Early Eighteenth-century Italy
Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris per Montes Specimen Physico-Medicum (1705) is probably the earliest and most well-documented attempt to define an
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Subterranean Economies: Resource Flows and Metal Culture in Early Modern Mining
Mining, metallurgy, and monetary practices are fields of knowledge and areas of action that are widely discussed in economic history, history of econo
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Mining was one of the most important driving forces behind economic and technological dynamics in early modern Europe. Silver, copper, and lead mining
Mineral Coal and the Transformation of Energy Systems
From a global history perspective, the transition of energy systems from organic to fossil fuels took place in different epochs. The English transitio
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In this project, coal is investigated as an object of multidisciplinary studies in order to understand how, in relation to knowledge, societies develo