The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, a large-scale irrigation design started in 1925 under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production. However, any id...Lasīt vairāk
An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall,establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable in and the threatening out by examining the pathologies associa...Lasīt vairāk