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An Agenda for Antiquity
Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1935
University of Alabama Press
How and why vertebrate paleontology flourished at New York’s American Museum of Natural History in the early 20th century
The Eagle's Nest
Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842
University of Alabama Press
Contains a useful panoramic account of the fresh perspectives that early American practitioners brought to the natural sciences
U.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office
A 19th-Century Rivalry in Science and Politics
University of Alabama Press
Examines a crucial phase of the relations of science and politics in the post-Civil War period
Raphael Pumpelly
Gentleman Geologist of the Gilded Age
University of Alabama Press
The biography of Raphael Pumpelly, a transitional figure in a period of rapid change
Brethren of the Net
American Entomology, 1840-1880
University of Alabama Press
Draws together information from diverse sources to illuminate an important chapter in the history of American science
Curators and Culture
The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870
University of Alabama Press
Curators and Culture argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.
Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985
By Janet Colaizzi; Foreword by Jonas R. Rappeport
University of Alabama Press
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts.
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
University of Alabama Press
Addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies
American Science in the Age of Jackson
University of Alabama Press
Shows how American scientists emerged from a disorganized group of amateurs into a professional body sharing a common orientation and common goals
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