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Guest Blog: Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires by Stuart Anderson »
In Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1618-1968, Stuart Anderson explores the many meanings now attached to the word ‘pharmacopoeia’ in scholarly writing. In this guest blog, he describes the origins and background to the book, some of the problems that can arise, and indicates what scholars can do to ameliorate … Read More >
The Last of Mary’s Places, by Marilyn Bowering »
Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differences of culture and language, time and place.
In the piece below, Marilyn Bowering explores … Read More >
Guest blog: Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War »
Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War argues that world leaders react to status decline by going to war, guided by a nostalgic, virile understanding of what it means to be powerful. Consulting newly declassified documents at the highest levels of decision-making, Matthieu Grandpierron uses the framework of nostalgic virility to provide surprising ways of … Read More >
Guest Blogger: Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations by Daniel Macfarlane »
Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations by Daniel Macfarlane is a reinterpretation of the history of US-Canada relations through environmental and energy issues. In the guest blog below, Macfarlane gives us an introduction to the topic of his book.
Billions of dollars of goods and services cross the Canada-US border daily. Canada is … Read More >
Guest Blog: Autobiography of a Garden by Patterson Webster »
In Autobiography of a Garden, Patterson Webster recounts her twenty-five-year gardening journey on the 750-acre property called Glen Villa in Quebec. The recently-published book explores the meaning of a garden, the ways in which we can learn from the land, and how we might preserve and present its history and the history … Read More >
