Series Editors: Alan I Marcus, Mark D. Hersey, and Alexandra E. Hui
Series Description
Now more than ever, historians recognize the central place of science in politics, culture, and much of daily life. Historians have begun to ask new questions of the past seeking answers to longstanding human situations in a way that places science, technology, environment, agriculture, or medicine at the core. Within agricultural history, for example, the emergence of foodways as a major subject of inquiry joins science, modes of production, health, and cultural transformation. In examining the intersection of nature and culture, environmental historians connect scientific transformations not only to ecological changes but to shifting cultural conceptions of the natural world. Traditional practitioners of the histories of science, technology, and medicine have similarly begun to push against old boundaries in new and exciting ways. Intersections of scientific, technical, or medical knowledge with topics long recognized as independent of those types of knowledge, such as music, urban planning, or educational policy, have spawned an intriguing range of new insights. Unsurprisingly, this recognition of science’s centrality in many activities heretofore rarely considered has translated into new syntheses, methods, and approaches within environmental, agricultural, technological, scientific, and medical history.
NEXUS directly embraces this fresh intellectual constellation. It showcases and invites books that explore science in the human experience in its myriad aspects rather than as mechanical contrivances or the simple accumulation of knowledge. Its editors are interested in books that are national and international in scope, that will leave a mark on the profession and make concrete contributions to scholarship. Although primarily focussed on the United States, NEXUS is open to monographs that primarily engage America from outside its borders and intersect in a meaningful way with the theme of science in human history. The series also naturally seeks manuscripts related to the American South, as long as they reveal and come to bear on matters of national or international significance.
Series Books
Editorial Advisory Board
- Amy Sue Bix
- Frederick R. davis
- Jim Downs
- Richard A. Richards
- Suman Seth
- Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
- Jessica Wang