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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas F. Glick is an American academic who taught in the departments of history and gastronomy at Boston University from 1972 to 2012. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1995. He has also been the director of the Institute for Medieval History at Boston University since 1998. Dr. Glick's course offerings for the history department covered the topics of medieval Spain, medieval science and medieval technology, and the history of modern science. For the gastronomy department he taught a number of classes, including "Readings in Food History" and "Readings in Wine History," and has designed a class on using cookbooks as primary resources. He is currently the director of the Shtetl Economic History Project and is a corresponding member of Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, an honorary member of Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia, and holds membership in the History of Science Society, the Society for the History of Technology, Sociedad Española de Historia de la Ciencia, Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència, and the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills. He has also authored numerous works pertaining to Spain, medieval history, Darwinism and other subjects.

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Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages: Comparative Perspective on Social and Cultural Formation (1980) (234)
Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia (1971) (178)
The Forgotten Frontier: A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier (1979) (125)
The comparative reception of Darwinism (1976) (124)
Urban Ecosystems and Island Biogeography (1978) (119)
Canal Irrigation and Local Social Organization [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (110)
From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castle: Social and Cultural Change in Medieval Spain (1995) (74)
Acculturation as an Explanatory Concept in Spanish History (1969) (73)
The Comparative Reception of Relativity (1987) (71)
Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine : An Encyclopedia (2014) (61)
The Sugarmill: The Socioeconomic Complex of Sugar in Cuba (1977) (57)
Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (Sixteenth Century to the Present) (1971) (50)
Convivencia : Jews, Muslims, and Christians in medieval Spain (1992) (43)
The reception of Charles Darwin in Europe (2008) (41)
Muhtasib and Mustasaf: A Case Study of Institutional Diffusion (1972) (40)
Science and Independence in Latin America (with Special Reference to New Granada) (1991) (35)
The Sugar Hacienda of the Marqueses del Valle (1973) (33)
Power and Penury: Government, Technology and Science in Philip II's Spain (1988) (27)
History and philosophy of geography (1985) (26)
The reception of Darwinism in the Iberian world : Spain, Spanish America and Brazil (2001) (25)
The Naked Science: Psychoanalysis in Spain, 1914–1948 (1982) (24)
Einstein In Spain (1988) (24)
The age of water : the urban environment in the North of France, A.D. 300-1800 (1989) (23)
Irrigation and Hydraulic Technology: Medieval Spain and its Legacy (1970) (20)
Einstein in Spain: Relativity and the Recovery of Science (2016) (20)
Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902 (2006) (19)
The Old World Background of the Irrigation System of San Antonio, Texas (1973) (17)
On the diffusion of a new specialty: Marañón and the “crisis” of endocrinology in Spain (1976) (16)
Dictating to The Dictator: Augustus Trowbridge, The Rockefeller Foundation, And The Support of Physics in Spain, 1923–1927 (2005) (16)
The Comparative Reception of Darwinism: A Brief History (2010) (10)
Endocrinology: A brief introduction (1976) (10)
George Sarton and the Spanish Arabists (1985) (9)
On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection (1996) (9)
Sexual Reform, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics of Divorce in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s (2003) (9)
Cultural Issues in the Reception of Relativity (1987) (9)
In Search of Geography (1983) (9)
Noria Pots in Spain (1977) (9)
Félix de Azara: The myth of the isolated genius in Spanish science (1975) (8)
Science and society in twentieth-century Latin America (1995) (8)
History and Philosophy of Geography (1984) (8)
Science in twentieth century Latin America (1995) (7)
The Martyr: The Story of a Secret Jew and the Mexican Inquisition in the Sixteenth Century (1973) (6)
Levels and Levelers: Surveying Irrigation Canals in Medieval Valencia (1968) (5)
The literary and cultural reception of Charles Darwin in Europe (2014) (5)
The Reception of Darwinism in Uruguay (2001) (5)
Reading the Repartimientos:: Modeling Settlement in the Wake of Conquest (2000) (5)
On the Influence of Kircher in Spain (1971) (5)
New perspectives on the hisba and its Hispanic derivatives (1992) (5)
Irrigation in Medieval Spain:: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ACROSS A GENERATION (2006) (4)
Marañón, intersexuality and the biological construction of gender in 1920s Spain. (2005) (4)
Establishing scientific disciplines in Latin America: genetics in Brazil,1943-1960 (1993) (4)
Éloge: José María Millás Vallicrosa (1897-1970) and the Founding of the History of Science in Spain (1977) (4)
Introduction: Cacao Culture: Case Studies in History 1 (2007) (4)
What about Darwin?: All Species of Opinion from Scientists, Sages, Friends, and Enemies Who Met, Read, and Discussed the Naturalist Who Changed the World (2010) (4)
Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, AD 400-1000 (review) (1999) (3)
Moriscos and Marranos as agents of technological diffusion (1995) (3)
The naked science: psychoanalysis in Spain. (1982) (3)
Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth Century Latin America: Science in twentieth century Latin America (1996) (3)
The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Peregrine Horden , Nicholas Purcell (2002) (3)
What about Darwin (2010) (3)
Comment on Paper by Watson (1974) (3)
The Scientific and Popular Receptions of Darwin, Freud, and Einstein (2001) (3)
Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire. Roberta J. Magnusson Histoires d'eau: Bisses et irrigation en Valais au XVe siècle. Denis Reynard (2005) (2)
Water for Larsa: An Old Babylonian Archive Dealing with Irrigation@@@The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert (1972) (2)
Medieval Irrigation Clocks (1969) (2)
Water in the Hispanic Southwest: A Social and Legal History, 1550-1850 Michael C. Meyer (1986) (2)
Toward the Inquisition: Essays on Jewish and Converso History in Late Medieval Spain (review) (1999) (1)
Azaira, alhetma: two medieval arabisms reflecting the allocation of irrigation water (2003) (1)
Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire/Histoires d'eau: Bisses et irrigation en Valais au XVe siècle (2005) (1)
Gayangos and the Boston Brahmins (2008) (1)
Higher Learning in Islam: The Classical Period, A.D. 700-1300 (1991) (1)
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006) : An Encyclopedia (2017) (1)
On the Origins of the “School of Barcelona”, Joan Vernet (1923-2011): In memoriam (2011) (1)
[The reception of Darwinism in Spain in comparative dimension]. (1969) (1)
The Sephardi Heritage: Essays on the history and cultural contribution of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, Vol. I: The Jews in Spain and Portugal before and after the Expulsion of 1492 (1972) (1)
324 Bibliography Aquinas, T.(1920) The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas. 2nd and rev (2012) (1)
The field of geography. (1981) (1)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought: Darwinism in Latin America (2013) (1)
History, Humanity and Evolution: Essays for John C. Greene , James R. Moore (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989) (1992) (1)
B. Netanyahu, The Marranos of Spain, from the Late XlVth to the Early XVIth Century . New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1966. Pp. vii, 254. (1967) (1)
Science, Discovery, and the Colonial World: Madrid, 25-28 June 1991 (1992) (1)
Jessica A. Coope, The Martyrs of Córdoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion . Lincoln, Nebr., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 113. $25. (1997) (0)
List of Illustrations and Tables (1988) (0)
Maya Shatzmiller. Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 230 pp. ISBN 978-06-7402-501-1, $28.95 (cloth) (2011) (0)
JANET BROWNE, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume 2 of a Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Pp. 591. ISBN 0-679-42932-8. £25.00 (hardback). (2006) (0)
Appendix 6. Droughts and Floods in Medieval Valencia (1970) (0)
john tate lanning. The Royal Protomedicato: The Regulation of the Medical Professions in the Spanish Empire. Edited by john jay tepaske. Durham: Duke University Press. 1985. Pp. 485. $37.50 (1986) (0)
Technology in the Middle Ages (2010) (0)
Appendix 8. Division of the Barada River in 125 H. (742/743 A.D.) (1970) (0)
Peter Linehan, History and the Historians of Medieval Spain . New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 748; 4 black-and-white plates. $105. (1995) (0)
The J. H. B. Bookshelf (1976) (0)
Appendix 5. Rainfall and Temperature in Valencia (1970) (0)
On the theory of recapitulation in Brazil: Emilio Goeldi and Hoatzim Fledglings (Filhotes da Cigana) (2002) (0)
History of Hispanic Science: El Boom (1986) (0)
:Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868 (2002) (0)
Book-Review - the Young Einstein - the Advent of Relativity (1985) (0)
Chapter Nine. After Einstein's Visit (1988) (0)
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Chapter Eight. Flow and Transformation of Ideas (1988) (0)
Appendix 7. Plans for Hydraulic Wheel in Valencia to Irrigate Garden of the Lonja, 1529 (1970) (0)
Book Review:The New History: The 1980's and Beyond Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg (1985) (0)
History and Philosophy of Geography (1987) (0)
From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries) (2018) (0)
Chapter Six. Relativity and Spanish Engineers: The Scientific Middle Class (1988) (0)
Chapter One. Spanish Science and the Reception of Relativity (1988) (0)
IV. The City's Role in Irrigation Development (1970) (0)
Efforts at internationalism. (1993) (0)
Konrad Hirschler, The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), 234 pp. ISBN: 978-0748677344 (pb). (2013) (0)
VIII. Arabs, Romans, or Christians? The Historiography of Spanish Irrigation in the Nineteenth Century (1970) (0)
ANTONIO BARRERA-OSORIO. Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 211. $45.00 (2007) (0)
Paulina B. Lewicka. Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes. Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2011. ISBN 978-9004-19472-4. xxi, 626 pp. US$268 (2012) (0)
XII. The Imprint of Islam upon the Terminology of Irrigation (1970) (0)
The Royal College of San Carlos: Surgery and Spanish Medical Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century. By Michael E. Burke. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 215. Bibliography. Index. $10.75.) (1978) (0)
The life and thought of Isaiah Bowman, Martin Geoffrey J.. Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut (1980), Pp. xvi + 272. $22·50 (1981) (0)
Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 by Robert I. Burns, S.J. (review) (1999) (0)
Pascual de Gayangos: Gayangos and the Boston Brahmins (2008) (0)
Astrolabes from Medieval Europe (2011) (0)
VII. The Huerta in Crisis (1970) (0)
Books Received (2007) (0)
Appendix 4. Regulations of the Water Company of Benidorm (1970) (0)
Science Frustrated: The ‘Einstein Institute’ In Madrid (2006) (0)
XIII. Image and Reality of Cultural Change (1970) (0)
Chapter Five. The Debate over Relativity in the 1920s (1988) (0)
eliyahu ashtor. The Jews of Moslem Spain. Volume 3. Translated by aaron klein and jenny machlowitz klein. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. 1984. Pp. 310. $19.95 (1986) (0)
Antonio Barrera-Osorio.Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution.:Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution (2007) (0)
History and philosophy of geography (1990) (0)
The J.H.B. bookshelf (1981) (0)
X. Irrigation Administration in Al-Andalus: The S̩āh̩ib al-S̩āh̩iya (1970) (0)
The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade.Mark D. Meyerson (1992) (0)
An Historical Geography of Europe 450 BC-AD 1330. N. J. G. Pounds (1976) (0)
Symposium on Methodology and Problems in the History of Science and Technology, Mexico City, 26-28 October 1981 (1982) (0)
History and philosophy of geography (1988) (0)
Book Review:Francisco Jose de Caldas: A Scientist at Work in Nueva Granada John Wilton Appel (1995) (0)
An Introduction to the Politics and Philosophy of José Ortega y GassetThe Imperative of Modernity: An Intellectual Biography of José Ortega y Gasset (1991) (0)
Leo the African (2008) (0)
Appendix 1. Municipal Provisions for Road Maintenance, 1396 (1970) (0)
IX. The Classical Inheritance (1970) (0)
04.04.09, Bloom, Paper Before Print (2004) (0)
The Nature of Change in Geographical Ideas by Brian J. L. Berry (1980) (0)
Arabic and Islamic Studies The Arab East (2010) (0)
From the Sarton papers: Paul Kraus and arabic alchemy (1999) (0)
Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain. Kenneth Baxter Wolf (1989) (0)
XI. Proportional Distribution and the Measuring of Water (1970) (0)
Francesc Duran Reynals (Barcelona, 1899-New Haven, USA, 1958) : Virus and cancer: a controversial theory (1999) (0)
Reviews of Books:Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present Mariano Plotkin (2004) (0)
Appendix 2. Irrigation of Vineyards (1970) (0)
Americana - Iris N. W. Engstrand, Spanish scientists in the New World: the eighteenth century expeditions . Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 220. £15.00/$25.00. (1983) (0)
Dale J. Pratt.Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 22.) x + 226 pp., bibl., index. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2001. (2002) (0)
Darwinism in Texas : an exhibition in the Texas History Center, April, 1972 (1972) (0)
04.04.07, Burns, Transition in Crusader Valencia (2004) (0)
Chapter Four. Madrid: The Two Aristocracies (1988) (0)
Virus and cancer: a controversial theory (1999) (0)
History and Philosophy of Geography (1985) (0)
Chapter Two. The Einstein Phenomenon (1988) (0)
V. The Search for New Sources of Water (1970) (0)
Chapter Three. Barcelona: Einstein and Catalan Nationalism (1988) (0)
VI. Regional Arrangements (1970) (0)
Stranger to physics (1985) (0)
Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal (Eds), Studies on Steinschneider. Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence of the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume 33 (Leiden: Brill, 2012). xxxii, 602 pp. (2012) (0)
I. The Huerta Environment (1970) (0)
Debra Blumenthal,Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia. (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.) Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. xix, 306; black-and-white figures, 1 table, and 3 maps. $42.50. (2011) (0)
John Boswell. The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1977. Pp. xiv, 526. $25.00 (1979) (0)
Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938) (2018) (0)
II. Irrigation Communities and Their Administration (1970) (0)
A. M. A. Maktari, Water Rights and Irrigation Practices in Lahj (Cambridge University Press, 1971 ). Pp. vii+202. Maps, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. $16.00 (1973) (0)
III. Intracommunity Conflict and Its Resolution (1970) (0)
Chapter Seven. The Slave at the Sermon: Einstein and the Spanish Intelligentsia (1988) (0)
Book Review:Western Science in the Arab World: The Impact of Darwinism, 1860-1930 Adel A. Ziadat (1987) (0)
History of Hispanic science: El boom. Essay review. (1986) (0)
Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada (review) (2011) (0)
Early Foundations of Mexican Herpetology. An Annotated and Indexed Bibliography of the Herpetological Publications of Alfredo Dugès, 1826-1910. Hobart M. Smith , Rozella B. Smith (1970) (0)
History and Philosophy of Geography (1986) (0)
Review of The Idea of European Unity, by Derek Heater; A Rural Society After the Black Death, by L. R. Poos; A Measure of Wealth, by D. E. Ginter;... (1993) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
David J. Wasserstein. The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1993. Pp. viii, 280. $55.00 (1995) (0)
One Town in the American Revolution@@@The New Grant: A History of Medway@@@A Plantation Called Petapawag: Some Notes on the History of Groton, Massachusetts@@@When I Think of Hingham (1977) (0)
The Darwinologists (1992) (0)
"Catalonia, Factory of Spain," an Exhibition in Barcelona (1986) (0)
Appendix 3. Crop Priorities in Time of Drought, 1376 (1970) (0)
S. J. Robert Ignatius Burns, Islam under the Crusaders: Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xxxi, 475. $20.00. (1977) (0)

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