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New and Noteworthy Books in the History of the Human Sciences

Book cover for How to Write the History of the New World

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is the winner of the 2001 FHHS Article Award In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new-that it had recently emerged from the waters-and that dangerous miasmas had … Continue reading →

Book cover for Constructing Scientific Psychology

Nadine M. Weidman, Constructing Scientific Psychology: Karl Lashley’s Mind-Brain Debates, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Constructing Scientific Psychology is the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. It sets Lashley’s research at the heart of two controversies that polarized the American life and human sciences in the … Continue reading →

Book cover for Socialist Darwinism

Richard Weikart, Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein, (: International Scholars Press, 1998).

Richard Weikart is the winner of the 1996 FHHS Dissertation Award. This important new study is an intellectual history exploring the reception of Darwinism by prominent German socialist theorists: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engles, Friedrich Albert Lange, Ludwig BŸchner, August Bebel, … Continue reading →