November 2012

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Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary Typhus and Tunisia Kim Pelis Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of science and medicine to society and culture in the first third of the twentieth century. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $39.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
Death, Modernity, and the Body Sweden 1870-1940 Eva Åhrén A provocative study that explores medical, social, cultural, and aesthetic customs and practices of treating the dead body in Sweden in an era of modernization. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $29.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
The Emergence of Britain's Global Naval Supremacy Richard Harding Discusses the lessons which Britain learned in the war of 1739-48 which, when applied in later wars, brought about Britain's global naval supremacy. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $34.95	March 2013	Military History	Paperback	Boydell Press
The English Catholic Community, 1688-1745 Politics, Culture, Ideology Gabriel Glickman A comprehensive examination of the English Catholic community in all its aspects. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £25.00 \| US $45.00	March 2013	Early Modern History	Paperback	Boydell Press
International Relations in Psychiatry Edited by Volker Roelcke, Paul J. Weindling, and Louise Westwood International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry by examining the transfer of conceptual, institutional, and financial resources and the migration of psychiatrists between Britain, the United States, and Germany. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99\| US $29.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
John Gower and the Limits of the Law Conrad van Dijk An examination of the ways in which Gower's poetry engages with contemporary law and legal questions. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	June 2013	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page Drew Massey How one extraordinary pianist, scholar, and editor prepared for publication important scores by Ives, Copland, and Ruggles, and reshaped the history of American musical modernism. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $90.00	June 2013	Music	Academic	University of Rochester Press
John W. Thompson Paul J. Weindling Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $39.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
Ludwik Hirszfeld Edited by Marta A. Balinska and William H. Schneider Translated by Marta A. Balinska An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $39.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, volume XIV Hitherto unpublished documents from early modern Scotland offer fascinating insights into contemporary life. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	June 2013	Early Modern History	Academic	Scottish History Society
The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry Jennifer Saltzstein A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	June 2013	French Studies	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Remaking English Society Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern Edited by Steve Hindle, Alexander Shepard, and John Walter A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $90.00	May 2013	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
Remembering Africa The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature Dirk Goettsche A groundbreaking treatment of the themes of colonialism and Africa in German literary fiction as presented in some fifty novels from the past three decades. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $95.00	June 2013	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Representing the "Good German" in Literature and Culture after 1945 Altruism and Moral Ambiguity Edited by Pól O Dochartaigh and Christiane Schönfeld Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $85.00	June 2013	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930: New Science in an Old Country Christopher Lawrence This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $39.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
Shifting Boundaries of Public Health Europe in the Twentieth Century Edited by Susan Gross Solomon, Lion Murard, and Patrick Zylberman New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $39.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
The Civil Wars after 1660 Public Remembering in Late Stuart England Matthew Neufeld Drawing upon the interdisciplinary field of social memory studies, this book opens up new vistas on the historical and political culture of early modern England. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	June 2013	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts Edited by Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £65.00 \| US $115.00	June 2013	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
The Lobotomy Letters The Making of American Psychosurgery Mical Raz Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and neurologist Walter Freeman, The Lobotomy Letters gives an account of the widespread acceptance of this controversial procedure. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $85.00	June 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited Edited by Stephen Taylor and Grant Tapsell New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £65.00 \| US $115.00	June 2013	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
The Origins of Organ Transplantation Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930 Thomas Schlich A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $39.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
The Politics of Vaccination Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874 Deborah Brunton A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $29.95	April 2013	History of Science & Medicine	Paperback	University of Rochester Press
The Twilight of the East India Company The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860 Anthony Webster Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $34.95	March 2013	Modern History	Paperback	Boydell Press