Search
Now showing items 31-37 of 37
Creating indigital peripheries: The Bureau of Indian Affairs, geographic information systems, and the digitization of Indian Country.
(2006)
The uneven development of GIS as the BIA represents a core-periphery geography. Since the nineteenth century, North American Indians have encountered the implementation of new technologies used to meet the goals and ...
Science in the everyday world - Why perspectives from the history of science matter
(2008-07)
The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and ...
Of birds, guano, and man: William Vogt's "Road to Survival".
(2005)
William Vogt's best-selling and influential neo-Malthusian text Road to Survival articulated the conservation sensibility of his day and was literally read around the world. Vogt (1902--1968) came to his conclusions about ...
Masculine methods: travel narratives and scientific authority in early Victorian Britain
(2022-08-04)
Feminist formulations have rightly impacted the history of science. In this thesis, I show how in the context of 19th Century Britain, men of science appealed to contemporary norms of masculinity to claim masculine virtues ...
The Children’s Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott
(2009-01)
The antebellum years in the United States were marked by vigorous debates about national identity in which issues of hierarchy, authority, and democratic values came under intense scrutiny. During this period, a prime ...
Fables in Natural History: An Examination of the Allegorical in the Development of Natural History Texts
(2024-05-10)
The Latin bestiary is known not only for its striking illustrations but also for the extensive religious commentary which accompanies the description of nearly every animal. While there is debate over whether the bestiary ...