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Climat, maladies des plantes et acclimatation: l'influence de l'agriculture sur les attitudes et les idées environnementales (1764-1800)
(Société Française d'Études du Dix-Huitième Siècle, 8 July 2022)À la fin du 18e siècle, les agronomes britanniques ont cherché à savoir si le blé, malgré son importance alimentaire pour la nation, était une plante indigène ou, au contraire, une plante exotique dont l’acclimatation au ... -
Beyond a trauma-informed approach and towards shame-sensitive practice
(Springer Nature, 24 June 2022)In this article, we outline and define for the first time the concept of shame-sensitivity and principles for shame-sensitive practice. We argue that shame-sensitive practice is essential for the trauma-informed approach. ... -
War, Wheat, and Crop Diseases of the Late Enlightenment: Contesting and Producing Evidence in Agriculture in Great Britain
(Routledge, 15 July 2022)This chapter surveys the different evidence cultures that were contested and developed during the close of the eighteenth century, when the dual threats of war and famine gave rise to the Board of Agriculture in 1793. The ... -
Closure and the critical epidemic ending
(Brepols, 19 May 2022)“An epidemic has a dramaturgic form,” wrote Charles Rosenberg in 1989, “Epidemics start at a moment in time, proceed on a stage limited in space and duration, following a plot line of increasing and revelatory tension, ... -
‘Hairy Honours of their Chins’: Whiskers and Masculinity in early nineteenth-century Britain
(Routledge, 6 October 2022)Studies of the Victorian ‘beard movement’ of the 1850s have demonstrated the close connections between facial hair and shifting ideas of, and concerns about, masculinity, gender, sexuality and modernity. The ‘beard movement’ ...