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Volume 54 - December 2021

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Toby Musgrave, The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. ISBN 978-0-3002-2383-5. $35.00 (hardcover).

Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-4373-4. £35.00 (hardcover).

Tom Williamson, Humphry Repton: Landscape Design in an Age of Revolution London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-1-7891-4299-0. £35.00 (hardcover)

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Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0615-3. $82.50 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2267-0629-0. $27.50 (paperback).

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C. Bruce Tarter, The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 453. ISBN 978-1-4214-2531-3. $79.95 (hardback).

Emma Griffin, Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-3002-3006-2. £20.00 (hardback)

Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 987-1-4214-3874-0. $54.95 (hardback)

Bernard Lightman and Bennet Zon (eds.), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-3672-2842-2. £120.00 (hardback).

Alexander Wragge-Morley, Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 272. ISBN: 978-0-2266-8086-6. $120.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2266-8072-9. $40.00 (paperback).

Audra Wolfe, Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 302. ISBN 978-1-4214-2673-0. $29.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4214-3908-2. $19.95 (paperback)

J.B. Shank, Before Voltaire: The French Origins of ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics, 1680–1715 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 464. ISBN: 978-0-2265-0929-7. $55.00 (paperback).

Tom Sharpe, The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning Wimborne Minster: The Dovecote Press, 2020. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-9955-4629-5. £20.00 (hardback).

David Herzberg, White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-2267-3188-9. $27.50 (hardback).

Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. ISBN: 978-1-1087-8126-8. £90.00 (hardback).

Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN: 978-1-7891-4314-0. £20.00 (hardback)

Malcolm Dick and Caroline Archer-Parré (eds.), James Watt, 1736–1819: Culture, Innovation, Enlightenment Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-1-7896-2081-8. £80.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-7896-2082-5. £24.99 (paperback).

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Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young - CORRIGENDUM

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Alexander Jones and Liba Taub (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1, Ancient Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 642. ISBN 978-0-511-98014-5. £120.00 (hardback)

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