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Agricultural Modernization and Biodiversity Conservation in the Twentieth Century
Helen Curry's research investigated the history of seed banking as a global conservation practice. Through this project, she sought to understand how
The Dark Figure: Haunting and Counting the "Volksseele"
In Germany, studies on "the dark figure"—an estimation of the number of unreported or undiscovered crimes—have recently been made part of large-scale
Counting Babies: The Madrid Foundling House as an Oeconomic House (1799–1820)
In 1799, a peculiar female society replaced the former male committee of the Madrid Foundling House and took total control of its management. The Junt
Secretsharers: Intersecting Systems of Knowledge and Ethnographic Encounters in the American Southwest, 1880–1930
Adam Fulton Johnson'S dissertation project investigates encounters between Anglo anthropologists and Pueblo and Navajo Indian communities in the South
From Electrotype to the Electric Image: Global Vision, ca. 1830–1920
This project seeks to trace the emergence of a new archival logic of images: the image bank. Across the second half of the nineteenth century—as
Cataloging Life
Species catalogs—printed or digital—are a specific form of encyclopedias and compendia. They are designed for different purposes, and "are among the m
The Cybernetic State: Social Science, Information Technology, and American Government, 1955–1985
In 2012, the US government committed over $200 million to a Big Data Research Initiative designed to explore how the analysis of massive collections o
Constructing Spaceship Earth
In Constructing Spaceship Earth, Perrin Selcer explores how and why scientists affiliated with UN agencies made the global-scale environment a so
Iberian Engineering and History of Science during the Cold War: Ruptures and Continuities between Fascist and Democratic Regimes
In a special issue of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences published in 2010, Tiago Saraiva and Norton Wise pointed out the need of addressing t