Edited by Emily I. Dolan, Emily MacGregor and Arman Schwartz
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828030
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Tracing the pathways through which sound traveled across a variety of conceptual and physical domains in the first half of the twentieth century, Sonic Circulations not only proposes a new account of the role of music, sound, and voice in modern knowledge production but also poses urgent questions about technology and empire.
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
Anatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work in order to explore and challenge rapid developments in anatomy and physiology.
Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge explores paradoxes of technology over two centuries to underscore why things so often turn out—for worse but also for better—so differently from futurists’ forecasts. By celebrating the complexity of reality, it counters the cycles of utopianism and doomsaying so often provoked by technological change.
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 Duffield (1730–1803), this lavishly illustrated volume catalogues and describes seventy-one known clocks and instruments built by Duffield standing proudly in major American museums and collections.
Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society
Patrick Spero
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 9781606189047
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Paperback
104 Pages
The Other Presidency explores Thomas Jefferson’s influence as president of the American Philosophical Society (APS) and its impact on the early history of American science. The book includes a chronology of Thomas Jefferson’s contributions to the APS, with references to major events in his life.
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan that catastrophic earthquakes were coming, and the first to show why earthquake prediction has played such a central role in Japan’s efforts to prepare for a dangerous future ever since.
In Knowledge True and Useful, Frank Rexroth shows how, beginning in the 1070s, a new kind of knowledge arose in Latin Europe that for the first time could be deemed “scientific.” Rexroth shows how this new perspective marked a turning point in European intellectual culture that culminated in the birth of the university.
Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Christopher M. Parsons
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512825497
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to shape the environment to better resemble the country they left behind, A Not-So-New World reveals that French colonial ambitions were fueled by a vision of an ecologically sustainable empire.
