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Book Chapters
2010, 'The Religious Thought of Francis Bacon', in Cusack CM; Hartney C (ed.), Religion and Retributive Logic. Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, Brill, Leiden, pp. 209 - 228
,2008, 'What are Allee effects?', in ALLEE EFFECTS IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, pp. 1 - 17, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000354462400003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2007, 'Preface', in Clemotte-Silvero O; Black J (ed.), The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. i - viii
,2007, 'The German Enlightenment and the Pacific', in Clemotte-Silvero O; Black J (ed.), The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. 141 - 171
,2006, 'The Study of Nature', in The Cambridge History of Eighteen Century Philosophy Volume II, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 854 - 872
,2004, 'Erstes Kapitel: Philosophie an den britischen Universitäten und in den gelehrten Gesellschaften (trans.The teaching of philosophy within the British Universities and learned societies of the Eighteen Century)', in Holzhey H; Mudroch V (ed.), Grundriss der Geschichte der philosophie die philosophie des 18. jahrhunderts band 1 grossbritannien und nordamerika niederlande, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, pp. 5 - 45
,2004, 'Joseph Banks, mapping and the geographics of natural knowledge', in Ogborn M; Withers CWJ (ed.), Georgian geographies: essays on space, place and landscape in the eighteenth century, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 151 - 173
,2003, 'Ideas of nature: natural philosophy', in Porter R (ed.), The Cambridge history of the eighteenth centure science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 285 - 304
,2003, 'Sensible Newtonians: Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson', in Knox KC; Noakes R (ed.), From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University`s Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 171 - 204
,2002, 'Blumenbach, Banks, and the beginnings of anthropology at Goettingen', in Nicolaas Rupke (ed.), Goettingen and the development of the natural sciences, Wallstein Verlag, Goettingen, pp. 86 - 96
,1999, 'Empire', in An Oxford companion to the romantic age, British culture 1776-1832, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 51 - 58
,1999, 'Enlightenment, cosmo-politanism and nationalism', in Britain in Europe: prospects for change, Ashgate, Aldershot, England, pp. 28 - 34
,1997, 'Articles on `Oxford` and `Cambridge`', in Britain in the Hanoverian Age: 1714-1837, Garland Publishing, NY
,1996, 'Anglican Latitudinarianism, rational dissent and political radicalism in the late Eighteenth Century`', in Enlightenment and the emergence of rational dissent, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 219 - 240
,1996, 'The ordering of nature and the ordering of empire: a commentrary in Miller DP', in Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany and Representations of Nature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 107 - 113
,1996, 'The scientist as patron and patriotic symbol: the changing reputation of Sir Joseph Banks', in Telling lives in science: studies in scientific biography, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 243 - 265
,Journal articles
2022, 'Anatomists of Empire: Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 53, pp. 502 - 503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2022.2079201
,2022, 'Book Review: Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 46, pp. 261 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12809
,2020, 'Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 44, pp. 520 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12696
,2020, 'Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 44, pp. 128 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12640
,2019, 'New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 43, pp. 425 - 426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12610
,2018, 'Saints and Stirrers: Christianity, Conflict and Peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814-1845.', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 42, pp. 462 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12542
,2018, 'Global intersections: Us whalers and voyagers and Australasia', Journal of Pacific History, 53, pp. 148 - 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2018.1452533
,2017, 'Reaffirming ‘the scientific revolution’', Metascience, 26, pp. 45 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0128-z
,2017, 'Sound and cross-cultural communication: European explorers and the peoples of the Pacific in the long eighteenth century', Republic of Letters, 5, pp. 1 - 10
,2016, 'The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten History of a Global Movement', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 40, pp. 617 - 618, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12392
,2016, 'Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson's Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670-1870', UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY, 85, pp. 448 - 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.85.3.448
,2015, 'Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination', JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, 26, pp. 941 - 943, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2016.0063
,2015, 'Republicanism and Responsible Government: The Shaping of Democracy in Australia and Canada', CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY-ANNALES CANADIENNES D HISTOIRE, 50, pp. 218 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.50.1.218
,2015, 'From science to religion: Justifying French Pacific voyaging and expansion in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy', Journal of Pacific History, 50, pp. 109 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2015.1042566
,2014, 'Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin', ISIS, 105, pp. 629 - 630, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/679134
,2014, 'Innocent on the Bounty: the court-martial and pardon of midshipman Peter Heywood, in letters; Mutiny and Aftermath: James Morrison's account of the mutiny on the Bounty and the island of Tahiti', The Journal of Pacific History, 49, pp. 359 - 361, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2014.928709
,2014, 'Innocent on the Bounty: the court-martial and pardon of midshipman Peter Heywood, in letters', JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY, 49, pp. 359 - 361, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342325400008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Mutiny and Aftermath: James Morrison's account of the mutiny on the Bounty and the island of Tahiti', JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY, 49, pp. 359 - 361, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342325400009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2013, 'The Metaphysical Assumptions Required for Political Autonomy', AJOB Neuroscience, 4, pp. 67 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2013.827761
,2013, 'Q&A session after the public lecture of Quentin Skinner', Ab Imperio, pp. 55 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/imp.2013.0022
,2012, 'Missionary Scientists. Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 36, pp. 317 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2011.01162.x
,2012, 'Bligh: master mariner', JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY, 47, pp. 131 - 132, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000305327200010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2012, 'Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas', JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY, 47, pp. 131 - 132, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000305327200009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2012, 'In Memoriam Patrick Collinson 1929-2011', PARERGON, 29, pp. IX - XIV, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2012.0028
,2012, 'Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas. By Anne Salmond;Bligh: master mariner. By Rob Mundle', The Journal of Pacific History, 47, pp. 131 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2012.649842
,2011, 'Anglicanism and the British Empire c. 1700-1850', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 35, pp. 155 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2010.00986.x
,2011, 'Preface', Brill's Series in Church History, 51, pp. VII
,2011, 'Getting physical: Empiricism’s medical History', Metascience, 20, pp. 299 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9474-4
,2010, 'Foreign Bodies. Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 41, pp. 109 - 110, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000276472200009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century', BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 43, pp. 124 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087410000117
,2010, 'Darwin and the British natural theology tradition', St. Mark's Review, pp. 35 - 42
,2010, 'Pacific Exploration as Religious Critique', Parergon, 27, pp. 143 - 162
,2010, 'The Journal of Religious History 1960-2010: The Changing Face of Religious History over Fifty Yeas', Journal of Religious History, 34, pp. 262 - 271
,2009, 'The Death of Captain Cook: a hero made and unmade', JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY, 44, pp. 99 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223340902900936
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