Select Bibliography for HIST 4657 Advanced
Seminar in History: Nature
Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Man: Science,
Technology and Ideaologies of Western Dominance (Ithaca, 1989).
Arnold, David. Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (Cambridge,
2000).
-----------------. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Eipidemic Disease
in Nineteenth-Century India (Berkeley, 1993).
-----------------, ed. Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Socieites (Manchester,
1988).
Barnes, B and Steven Shapin. Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific
Culture (Beverly Hills, 1979).
Bonner, T.N. To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine
(Cambridge, 1992).
Bottema, S.G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. Van Zeist. Man's Role in Shaping the Eastern
Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam, 1990).
Brewer, D., D. Redford, and S. Redford. Domestic Plants and Animals: The Eqyptian
Origins (Warminster, 1992).
Braudel, F. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip
II (London, 2000).
Butterfield, H. The Origins of Modern Science: 1300-1800 (New York, 1965).
Butzer, K. Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology
(Chicago, 1976).
Calgett, M. Ancient Egyptian Science (Philadelphia, 1992).
Cipolla, C.M Guns and Sail in the Early Phase of European Expansion, 1400-1700
(London, 1965).
----------------. Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700 (London, 1967).
Cowan, R.S. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from
the Open hearth to the Microwave (New York, 1983).
Cronon, W. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New
England (New York 1983).
Crosby, A.W. Ecological Imperialism: The biological expansion of Eurpoe, 900-1900
(Cambridge, 1986).
Curtin, Philip. Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical Wolrd
in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1989).
Darby, W.P Ghalioungui, and L. Grivetti. Food: The Gift of Osiris (New York,
1977).
Darnton, R. Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France (Cambridge,
1968).
Daston, L. Classical Probablity in the Enlightenment (Princeton, 1988).
Davis, M., Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the
Third World (London, 2001).
Dear, P.R. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific
Revolution (Chicago, 1995).
Eliade, M. Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return (New York, 1959).
Fagan, B. Floods, Famine, and Emperors (New York, 1999).
Fetter, Bruce. "History and Health Science: Medical Advances Across Disciplines," Journal
of Interdisciplinary History, 32, 3 (Winter 2002), pp. 427-442.
Filer, J. Disease (Austin, 1996).
Flemming, R. Medicine and the Making of the Roman Women (Oxford, 2000).
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things (New York, 1973).
Garnsey, P. Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, 1999).
Ghalioungui, P. The Physicians of Pharaonic Egypt (Mainz am Rhien, 1983).
Grmek, M.D. Diseases in the Ancient Greek World (Baltimore, 1989).
Grove, Richard. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens
and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 (Cambridge, 1995).
Guha, Ramchandra. Environmentalism, A Global History (London, 2000).
Hahn, R. The Anatomy of a Scientific Insitution: The Paris Academy of Sciences,
1666-1803 (Berkeley, 1971)
Haraway, D.J. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern
Science (New York, 1989).
Headrick, Daniel. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism
in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1981).
Heilbron, J.L. The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (Cambridge,
1999).
Hughes, J.D. Ecology in Ancient Civilizations (Albuquerque, 1975).
Ikam, S. Choice Cuts: Meat Production in Ancient Egypt (Leuven, 1995).
Isenberg, A.C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History 1750-1920
(Cambridge, 2000).
Jones. J.H. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (New York, 1993).
Jungnickel, C and Russell McCormmach. Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical
Physics from Ohm to Einstein (Chicago, 1986).
Kraut, A.M. Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (New
York, 1994).
Kuhn, T.S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago, 1970),
Landes, D.S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development
in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (London, 1969).
Latour, Bruno. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Princeton,
1986)
McClellan, J.E. Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth
Centruy (New York, 1985).
McNeill, William. Plagues and Peoples (Harmondsworth, 1979).
Meiggs, R. Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Oxford 1982).
Merchant, C. The Death of Nature: Women Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
(San Francisco, 1980).
Mitterauer, M. The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle
Ages to the Present (Oxford, 1982).
Morantz-Sanchez, R.M. Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine
(New York, 1985).
Needham, J. Science, Religion and Reality (London, 1925).
Nicolson, M.H. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetic
of the Infinite (Ithaca, 1959).
Nunn, J. Ancient Egyptions Medicine (Norman, 1996).
Ponting, Clive. A Green History of the World, The Environment and the Collapse
of Great Civilizations (Harmondsworth, 1993.)
Poovey. M. A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences
of Wealth and Society. (Chicago, 1998).
Powell, M. "Salt, Seed and Yield: A Critique of the Theory of Progressive
Salinization" Zeitschrift der Assriologie 74: 7-38.
Pryor, J.H. Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History
of the Mediterranean, 649-1571 (Cambridge, 1988).
Redman, C. Human Impact on Ancient Environments (Tuscon, 1999).
Sallares, R. The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World (London, 1991).
Schama, S. Landscape and Memory (New York, 1995).
Scheidel, W. Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt (Leiden,
2001).
Segre, M. In the Wakke of Galileo. (New Brunswick, 1991).
Shapin, S. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century
England (Chicago,1994).
Silver, T. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in
South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1990).
Toulmin, S and June Goodfield. The Discovery of Time (New York, 1966).
White, L.T. Medieval Technology and Social Change (Oxford, 1962).
Williams, R. The Country and the City (London, 1973).
Wrigley, E.A The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A Reconstruction
(Cambridge, Mass., 1981)
Zuckerman, H. Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States (New York,
1977).
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