Edited by Emily I. Dolan, Emily MacGregor and Arman Schwartz
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828030
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area....
The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry
Whitney Sperrazza
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827590
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s...
Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuityHow did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute...
Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803
Bob Frishman
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781606180099
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
The first comprehensive study of the life and times of colonial Philadelphia clockmaker Edward DuffieldEdward Duffield (1730–1803) was a colonial Philadelphia clockmaker, whose elegant brass, mahogany,...
Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society
Patrick Spero
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 9781606189047
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Paperback
104 Pages
In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson’s life. For nearly seventeen years, Jefferson served as President of the American Philosophical...
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth...
A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own...
Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Christopher M. Parsons
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512825497
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found...
The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what early...
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period’s rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death...
