Hughes Prize Shortlisting

Source: British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)   The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) has unveiled the shortlist for its Hughes Prize. Six exceptional books will now be...

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Asua, Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) (2022)

Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) A Study on Scientific Culture, Religion, and Secularisation in Latin America Miguel de Asúa De Gruyter, 2022 Science and Catholicism in Argentina...

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Walsh, The Religion of Life (2022)

The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile Sarah Walsh University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022 The Religion of Life examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism...

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Estefane et. al., Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics (2022)

Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics Andrés Estefane, Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, Claudia Jorgelina Daniel Springer Intl., 2022 This book brings together recent research on the...

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De Rosso y Kurlat, La ciencia ficción en América Latina (2021)

La ciencia ficción en América Latina crítica, teoría, historia Ezequiel De Rosso, Silvia G. Kurlat Ares Peter Lang, 2021 La ciencia ficción en América Latina. Crítica. Teoría. Historia. ofrece un...

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Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America

  Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America María del Pilar Blanco, Joanna Page University of Florida Press, 2020   Challenging the common view that Latin America has lagged...

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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

  The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class Joel Kotkin Encounter Books, 2020     Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are...

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Zero-point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Latin America

By Santiago Castro-Gómez · Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the...

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