A collection of my academic and non-academic writings, some of which are available in an open-access format.
Books
Bonea, Amelia, and Irina Nastasa-Matei, eds. Negotiating in/visibility: Women, Science, Engineering and Medicine in the Twentieth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. [Open access]
Bonea, Amelia. The News of Empire: Telegraphy, Journalism, and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India, c. 1830-1900. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016. Winner of the Inaugural AHA Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism 2017.
You can read the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize citation for this book in Perspectives on History (December 2017). Or you can take a look at some of the reviews here, here, here and here.
Articles, book chapters and essays
Bonea, Amelia. ‘Owning the (Deep) Past: Paleontological Knowledge and the Political Afterlives of Fossils.’ History of Knowledge, 25 July 2023, https://historyofknowledge.net/2023/07/25/paleontological-knowledge/.
Bonea, Amelia. ‘Electric News in Colonial Algeria.’ Media History, 29, 3 (2023): 426-31.
Bonea, Amelia. ‘“Contagion by Telephone”: Print Media and Knowledge about Infectious Diseases in Britain, 1880s-1914.’ Technology and Culture, 62, 3 (2021): 1063-86. Winner of the Inaugural SHOT Mercurians Prize in the History of Communication Technologies 2022.
Bonea, Amelia. ‘An Imperial Ideology of News: News Values and Reporting about Japan in Colonial India’. In David Finkelstein (ed.), Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, vol. 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2021.
Bonea, Amelia. ‘19-seiki Indo ni okeru shimbun to gijutsu: Denshin wo jirei ni’ [Newspapers and Technology in Nineteenth-Century India: The Case of the Telegraph]. Journal of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies 25 (2013): 128-51. [In Japanese, open access]
Published translations
Children’s books
Bonea, Amelia. The Magic Mango. Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver, 2018. [Open access, available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, French, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Kora, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Tamil]
Book reviews
2023. Review of Lachlan Fleetwood, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya. H-Soz-Kult, 16 June <www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-128424>.
2020. Review of Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker (eds.), Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies. Corona-Lektüre, H-Soz-Kult, May.
2020. Review of Torsten Kathke, Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920. Technikgeschichte, 87 (2): 12-13.
2020. Review of Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Imperial Technology and ‘Native’ Agency. A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850–1920. H-Soz-Kult, March.
2018. Review of Aparajith Ramnath, The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry and the State, 1900-47. H-Soz-Kult, November.
2018. Review of Elleke Boehmer, Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of the British Empire. H-Soz-Kult, May.
2015. Review of Nitin Sinha, Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India. Bihar, 1760s–1880s. H-Soz-Kult, August.
2015. Review of Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher (eds.), Trans-colonial Modernities in South Asia. Middle Ground Journal 11, Fall.
2015. Review of Smritikumar Sarkar, Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India, 1830-1980. Reviews in History, April, Review No. 1760.
2015. Review of Nandini Bhattacharya, Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 70: 1, 144-146.
2013. Review of Joel H. Wiener, The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s-1914: Speed in the Age of Transatlantic Journalism. H-Soz-Kult, April.
2012. Review of Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (eds.), The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India. Journal of International and Global Studies, 4: 1, 120-122.
2012. Review of Peter O’Connor, The English-Language Press Networks of East Asia, 1918-1945. Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 3, 92-94.
2012. Review of Satoshi Mizutani, The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the ‘Domiciled Community’ in British India 1858-1930. Reviews in History, September, Review No. 1317.
2012. Review of Ursula Rao, News as Culture: Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions. H-Net Reviews, April.
Other media
• Blog post, ‘In praise of translation… and translators’, StoryWeaver blog, 29 September 2018.
• Guest post, ‘Perhaps the Ear Is the Organ of Storytelling, Not the Mouth’, StoryWeaver blog, 20 February 2017.
• Blog post, ‘Electric Stair-Climbers and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century’, ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ blog, 15 April 2016.
• Blog post, ‘“Koch’s Lymph”: A Story by I. T. Mera’, ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ blog, 10 February 2016.
•Blog post, ‘An Early Episode in the History of Electrotherapy in Japan’, ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ blog, 24 February 2015.
• Blog post, ‘Telegraphs, Electromagnetic Polkas and the Vienna New Year’s Day Concert’, ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ blog, 9 January 2015.
• Guest post, ‘Print and Media Cultures Dissertation Reviews’, Book History and Print Culture Network, 30 January 2014.
AMELIA BONEA 