Sabine Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6268-8830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Invasive Species, Health, and Global History Afterword
The papers in this special issue explore the metaphorical realms that inform discourses on disruptive plants and animals. They explore how species movements in the twentieth century were framed and interpreted, and the medical, scientific, legal, and bureaucratic processes that turned a non-native or mobile species into a formally designated “invasive” one. In doing so, they allow insight into the mechanisms of disavowal, how some species were co…
Turning DDT into ‘Didimac’
This paper examines the adoption of DDT and other insecticides in British farming after 1945 to consider the notion that new synthetic insecticides were taken up rapidly. It shows that the uptake of chemical insecticides during the 1940s and 1950s was slower in many agricultural sectors than accounts have often suggested, and slower than the uptake of other agrochemicals, such as herbicides. Importantly, this paper shows that the extent of use be…
Pyrethrum and the Second World War
Historians have long recognised that DDT’s fame began with extraordinary propaganda late in the Second World War, yet heroic narratives that centre the chemical still shape historical understanding. Two false assumptions inform much of the existing scholarship on wartime insect control: one is that without DDT the Allies had no protection from malaria and typhus; the other is that DDT was significantly more toxic than any alternative insecticide …
Competitive Cooperation and Public Health
The landscape of scientific and medical help for the Global South in the late colonial period was a complex one in which technical assistance provided by nations such as America, and the work of new agencies such as the WHO, sat alongside European colonial interventions. This paper explores the tensions that could exist between British and American experts working together in Britain’s colonies after 1940. It shows how a venereal disease control …
The Alchemy of Empire
In this book, Rajani Sudan invites us think about materials that are not usually prominent in histories of Britain’s empire—mud, pus and ice, among others. Sudan organises her account around matter that can be described as abject but which was transformed by Indian technique into substances with great potency and material value. Take mortar, for example. Eighteenth-century visitors to Madras remarked upon the beauty and strength of the materials …
‘The Chance to Send Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies’
Perhaps the most obvious rejoinder to the suggestion that the period after the Second World War can be seen as the gradual winding down of the British colonial empire is the fact that the number of individuals employed in the colonial services reached their peak in 1954, with a total of 18,000 officers (from 8,000 in 1938).1 The growth of the colonial services in the postwar period was driven by substantial expansion in specialist and professiona…
Pure Science with a Practical Aim
Historians tell us that the term "fundamental research" entered the discourse of science in the interwar period as a synonym for "pure science" and that both terms referred to work concerned with the search for knowledge, without thought of application. The aim of this paper is to show that when the expression "fundamental research" was used in Britain during and after World War I, it had a particular status that was not equivalent to pure scienc…
Pure Science with a Practical Aim
Historians tell us that the term "fundamental research" entered the discourse of science in the interwar period as a synonym for "pure science" and that both terms referred to work concerned with the search for knowledge, without thought of application. The aim of this paper is to show that when the expression "fundamental research" was used in Britain during and after World War I, it had a particular status that was not equivalent to pure scienc…
Pyrethrum and the Second World War
Historians have long recognised that DDT’s fame began with extraordinary propaganda late in the Second World War, yet heroic narratives that centre the chemical still shape historical understanding. Two false assumptions inform much of the existing scholarship on wartime insect control: one is that without DDT the Allies had no protection from malaria and typhus; the other is that DDT was significantly more toxic than any alternative insecticide …
Pure Science with a Practical Aim
Historians tell us that the term "fundamental research" entered the discourse of science in the interwar period as a synonym for "pure science" and that both terms referred to work concerned with the search for knowledge, without thought of application. The aim of this paper is to show that when the expression "fundamental research" was used in Britain during and after World War I, it had a particular status that was not equivalent to pure scienc…
‘The Chance to Send Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies’
Perhaps the most obvious rejoinder to the suggestion that the period after the Second World War can be seen as the gradual winding down of the British colonial empire is the fact that the number of individuals employed in the colonial services reached their peak in 1954, with a total of 18,000 officers (from 8,000 in 1938).1 The growth of the colonial services in the postwar period was driven by substantial expansion in specialist and professiona…
The Alchemy of Empire
In this book, Rajani Sudan invites us think about materials that are not usually prominent in histories of Britain’s empire—mud, pus and ice, among others. Sudan organises her account around matter that can be described as abject but which was transformed by Indian technique into substances with great potency and material value. Take mortar, for example. Eighteenth-century visitors to Madras remarked upon the beauty and strength of the materials …
Competitive Cooperation and Public Health
The landscape of scientific and medical help for the Global South in the late colonial period was a complex one in which technical assistance provided by nations such as America, and the work of new agencies such as the WHO, sat alongside European colonial interventions. This paper explores the tensions that could exist between British and American experts working together in Britain’s colonies after 1940. It shows how a venereal disease control …
Turning DDT into ‘Didimac’
This paper examines the adoption of DDT and other insecticides in British farming after 1945 to consider the notion that new synthetic insecticides were taken up rapidly. It shows that the uptake of chemical insecticides during the 1940s and 1950s was slower in many agricultural sectors than accounts have often suggested, and slower than the uptake of other agrochemicals, such as herbicides. Importantly, this paper shows that the extent of use be…
Pyrethrum and the Second World War
Historians have long recognised that DDT’s fame began with extraordinary propaganda late in the Second World War, yet heroic narratives that centre the chemical still shape historical understanding. Two false assumptions inform much of the existing scholarship on wartime insect control: one is that without DDT the Allies had no protection from malaria and typhus; the other is that DDT was significantly more toxic than any alternative insecticide …
Invasive Species, Health, and Global History Afterword
The papers in this special issue explore the metaphorical realms that inform discourses on disruptive plants and animals. They explore how species movements in the twentieth century were framed and interpreted, and the medical, scientific, legal, and bureaucratic processes that turned a non-native or mobile species into a formally designated “invasive” one. In doing so, they allow insight into the mechanisms of disavowal, how some species were co…
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