This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the prese

The human sciences in the English-speaking world have been in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle between champions of hard-core scientific

In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the com

This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and