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]
New lead isotopic analyses are presented for lead antimonate coloured glass and faience from Amarna in Middle Egypt and dated to around 1350 BC. When compared to existing data, these suggest that Gebel Zeit on the Red Sea coast of Egypt may be the source
If they are successfully to carry out a research programme, astronomers need two crucial resources - access to telescopes, and sufficient time allocated on them to make observations and collect data. This paper employs the concept of the 'moral economy'
Ten years of research about the Neanderthal's subsistence behaviour are presented. The study of large mammal bones is now recognized as a means of understanding subsistence behaviour (sensu lato), notably by analysing acquisition and processing strategie
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