How can historians of small spaces and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinar... [more]
Building on recent works that question a simplistic, White narrative of the history of academic oral history, this article focuses on the labors of Bl... [more]
We undertook stable isotope analysis of Upper Palaeolithic humans and fauna from the sites of Gough's Cave and Sun Hole Cace, Somerset, U.K., for palaeodietary reconstruction. We were testing the hypothesis that these humans had a mainly hunting economy,
Two shoulder-joint dislocations in early 19th century Londoners were examined. Both subjects were crypt-interred and so came from wealthy families. Both were rare posterior dislocations. The anatomical aspects are considered. One was from a woman who died
Maurice Bardeche is an important neo-fascist writer whose ideas derive from those of Pierre Drieu la Rochelle and Robert Brasillach. After 1945 he argued that right-wing thought had been ghettoized and even imprisoned by a post-Nuremberg liberal political
It has become a critical commonplace to view a body of postwar British poetry by male poets of working-class origin as marked by questions of class, education and language and with anxieties over the gap between origins and destinations. However, this cri
This paper examines an inflammatory subject -'DNA typing' (or 'DNA fingerprinting' as it is popularly called)- to show how credible scientific knowledge is produced through the systematic erasure of uncertainty and random variation. This erasure occur
Profits depend on successful responses to prices in commodity and factor markets, which did not exist before capitalism. Entrepreneurs are most Likely to succeed if they operate in perfect markets. Zn the labour market this requires flexibility: the capac
Geis and Zwicky's squib on conditional perfection (1971) released a hornets nest of rebuttal and counter-rebuttal into the pragmatic atmosphere, with many scholars in the area playing alternately the roles of stinger and stingee. Gels and Zwicky's goal
We show that the Bub-Clifton uniqueness theorem (1996) for 'no collapse' interpretations of quantum mechanics can be proved without the 'weak separability' assumption. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Phytoliths record late Quaternary vegetation at three archaeological sites in the Ituri rain forest. The oldest deposits, dated to ca, 19,000 to 10,000 C-14 yr B.P., contain abundant phytoliths of grasses but also enough arboreal forms to show that the la
Research on sanitary reform in nineteenth-century Britain has focused mainly on the introduction of large-scale sanitary infrastructure, especially waterworks and sewerage systems. Other sanitary measures such as the provision of public baths and wash-hou
In this paper I explore the construction of a clinical continuum between a genetic disease, cystic fibrosis (CF), and male infertility. I provide a brief outline of the history of cystic fibrosis and its association with male infertility, before examining
Recent erasion in arid regions of western NSW has exposed large areas that are scattered with stone artefacts manufactured by Aboriginal people in prehistory. These exposures offer an opportunity for archaeologists to study the artefacts abandoned by Abor
Einstein proclaimed that we could discover true laws of nature by seeking those with the simplest mathematical formulation. He came to this viewpoint later in his life. In his early years and work he was quite hostile to this idea. Einstein did not develo
The microchemistry of the black gloss decoration layer on black- and red-figured Attic vases (6th to 4th century BC) has been studied by means of selected-area x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive spect
Heidegger's Destruktion of the metaphysical tradition leads him to the view that all Western metaphysical systems make foundational claims best understood as 'ontotheological'. Metaphysics establishes the conceptual parameters of intelligibility by ont