Joost RekveldFrom 2008 but just in: a cultural history of salt by Jakob Vogel. Any pointers to other cultural histories of substances are very welcome.
tools for commensality 🧿say more about "substances"?
@inquiline I'm not being terribly specific, am I ;) ?
"Chemical substances" would be a bit more precise without being too restrictive: I had to think of the great book by Esther Leslie on Liquid Crystals and was wondering what other similar cultural histories exist..
"Chemical substances" would be a bit more precise without being too restrictive: I had to think of the great book by Esther Leslie on Liquid Crystals and was wondering what other similar cultural histories exist..
two that come to mind are Living Oil by Stephanie LeMenager, and American Plastic by Jeffrey Meikle. (related substances, US focus)
less cultural but for history of quinine & related drugs:
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article-abstract/65/1/143/805296?
this is probably even less what you're looking for but there are at least a few chemical substances in this project, maybe bibliographies in the entries would turn things up?
https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/index
@inquiline thanks so much for those pointers, none of which I knew, all of which look interesting. I will investigate ! That Feral Atlas is a great resource, amazing !
glad to help! Feral Atlas is really cool!
Kim (they/dey/iel)There‘s a German dissertation by Wolfgang Hottner, “Kristallisationen: Ästhetik und Poetik des Anorganischen im späten 18. Jahrhundert“ which might be of interest for you ❄️
@ueb_team161 Thanks so much Kim, in the meantime it seems that the dissertation has become a book and it looks totally up my alley ! I may have just ordered a second-hand copy....
@[email protected] Yes exactly, it‘s the published version so he can now call himself Dr. of philosophy
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