MARGARET C. JACOB

Field

Europe, Science, Dutch, British and French History

Research Interests

History of Science, Intellectual History

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Notes

Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science Technology and Medicine


UCLA-Utrecht Exchange Program

Dutch Studies at UCLA

UCLA Center for the Interdisciplinary Study and Treatment of Pain

Selected Publications

Recent and Selected Publications

The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History with Documents, Bedford Books, to appear 2009.

With Lynn Hunt and Wijnand Mijnhardt, eds. The First Global Vision of Religion: Bernard Picart's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, under contract with Getty Research Center, due out in 2009

with Lynn Hunt and Wijnand Mijnhardt, Confronting the Gods: How One Book Changed Attitudes Toward Religion, under contract with Harvard University Press

with Catherine Secretan, eds. The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists, to appear in 2008 with Palgrave-Macmillan

Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
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The Origins of Freemasonry. Facts and Fictions, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.



“Mechanical Science on the Factory Floor: The Early Industrial Revolution in Leeds,” History of Science, vol. 45, 2007, pp. 197-221.

"Scientific Culture and the Origins of the First Industrial Revolution," Historia e Economia. Revista Interdisciplinar, vol. 2, 2006,pp. 55-70

"Bernard Picart and the Turn to Modernity," De Achttiende eeuw, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 1-16.

With Larry Stewart, Practical Matter. The Impact of Newton's Science from 1687 to 1851, Harvard University Press, November 2004.

With M. Kadane, "Missing now Found in the Eighteenth Century. Weber's Protestant Capitalist," American Historical Review, February, 2003, vol 2008, pp. 20-49.

with Lynn Hunt, "Enlightenment Studies," in Alan Charles Kors, ed., Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, 2003 vol 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 418-430.


With D. Sturkenboom, "A Women's Scientific Society in the West: The Late Eighteenth Century Assimilation of Science" Isis, June, 2003, vol. 94, pp. 217-252

With Michael Sauter “Why did Humphrey Davy not apply nitrous oxide to the relief of pain?”, The Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 57, April 2002, pp. 161-176.

With Lynn Hunt “The Affective Revolution in 1790s Britain,” Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 34, 2001, pp. 491-521.

With David Reid “Technical Knowledge and the Mental Universe of Manchester’s Cotton Manufacturers,”Canadian Journal of History, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 283-304. French translation appeared in Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine vol. 50-52, 2003.

“Thinking Unfashionable Thoughts, Asking Unfashionable Questions,” American Historical Review, April 2000, vol. 105, pp. 494-500.

“Commerce, Industry and Newtonian Science: Weber Revisited and Revised,” Canadian Journal of History, v. 35, Fall, 2000, pp. 236-51.

The Enlightenment: A Brief History, Bedford Books, 2001.

Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West, published by Oxford University Press; 1997, a sequel to The Cultural Meaning

Telling the Truth about History with Lynn Hunt and Joyce Appleby, New York, W.W.Norton, 1994. Reviewed New York Times Book Review, March 25, 1994. TLS, June 10, 1994; The New Republic, Oct. 24, 1994; editions in Spanish, Polish, Lithuanian and Chinese under contract. A selection of the History Book Club. Forums on the book in History and Theory and the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism, with Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. My half discusses Newtonian mechanics and European industrial culture throughout the 18th century. Humanity Press, 1995. Winner of the Watson-Davis Award, History of Science Society

Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe, 1991, 350pp. Oxford University Press; reviewed TLS, June 12, 1992; AHR, 1993; JMH, 1994; Italian rights bought by Laterza. French translation appeared in 2004 with L'Orient, Paris.

The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution, Alfred Knopf, sold to McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988, 273 pp. Reviewed New York Review of Books, April 28,1988; Italian translation, Einaudi Editore, 1992.

The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans, published by George Allen & Unwin, London and Boston,1981; Italian translation, L'Illuminismo Radicale, published by Societa Editrice Il Mulino,1983. Second edition, revised, Cornerstone Books, 2005

The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720, Cornell University Press and Harvester Press, Ltd., 1976. Awarded the Louis Gottschalk Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Reviewed in New York Review of Books, December 7, 1978. Italian translation, I Newtoniani e la rivoluzione inglese, 1689-I720, 1980 by Feltrinelli Editore, Milan. Reprinted, 1983; Japanese translation, 1990. Available from Gordon and Breach, "Classics in the History of Science."

The Opening of the Great Industrial
Exhibition of All Nations, May 1st 1851