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Experimenting Exotic Drugs in Charitable Institutions and Hospitals (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
This project investigated early modern trials and experimentations on "exotic" materia medica. It considered these trials both as epistemological proc
Postdoktorandin Edna Bonhomme veröffentlicht Artikel in Al Jazeera
Zum ArtikelPostdoctoral Fellow Edna Bonhomme publishes article in Al Jazeera.
Read ArticleArchitecture and Empire in the Reign of Yongle
My project for the Local Gazetteers workshop (August 2016) is to collect information on and map using GIS the sources of the nan-wood timbers used for
Darwin and the "Natural" Science of Emotions
The aim of this project is to examine the methods and techniques that were developed by Darwin to turn feelings from widely different domains into obj
Data That Travel: Climates between Africa, Europe, and the Globe
"Data That Travel: Climates Between Africa and Europe" examines the conditions of climatological data collection efforts in colonial Africa and the pr
A China-Centered Perspective on the Travels of Rice, Tea, and Cotton through Early Modern Eurasia
During the colonial period, Westerners deliberately planned the introduction of valuable Asian crops such as rice, tea, or cotton to territories under
The Industrial Organism
During the long nineteenth century, biologists and geologists developed a teleological theory of evolution according to which organic entities exhibit
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