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]
This paper investigates the question whether or not amalgam tinning was used for the plating of bronze objects in pre-Han and Han dynasty China. The relevant literary sources are reviewed and amalgam tinning is characterized experimentally with regard to
Leading members of the Slavophile circle shared a common Weltanschauung, fostered by a complex reaction to the social and political changes taking place in mid-nineteenth-century Russia. There was, however, considerable diversity in their views about the
The humeral impingement disorder (HID) results from degenerative changes in the rotator cuff tendon which allows the humerus to press against the acromion and produce pressure facets on both the acromion and the greater humeral tubercle. A previous study
This text discusses the Portuguese government's policy of immigration to Rio de Janeiro from the end of the 18th century. It also reveals the importance of Portuguese labor in that city at the beginning of the 19th century.
This article deals with aspects of the process of immigration to Rio de Janeiro between 1786 and 1844. Its sources are parish registers, inventories and passports. Migration played a very important role in the Portuguese Empire, and this tendency was inte
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