... shape the fields of information upon which knowledge developed? Proctor's is the most trenchant and nuanced treatment we now have of these questions about the history and sociology of knowledge. Of course, the tobacco industry was not smelling of roses before Proctor's publication: esteemed historians...

... century. A detailed examination of the membership shows a broad array of high achievers in the arts and sciences, as well as many individuals who held important public office. In particular, the Club elected a remarkable group of distinguished Victorian historians, including Macaulay, Grote, Froude, Lecky...

...This chapter is a general introduction to the current trend of studies of mathematical practice, with particular emphasis on historical and philosophical work. It offers a preliminary explanation of the notion of mathematical practice, first by considering the work of historians and philosophers...

... of an ideal paradigm. It is concerned with the abundant English prose writing of early modern military theorists. Moreover, it describes how some military historians have responded to Tudor and Stuart military writing. The medieval images that appeared in early modern military texts are witness to a crisis...

...Historians’ critical reflections are indispensable for reassessing the Tokyo Trial and resolving the history problem. Recently, these critical reflections have multiplied in East Asia through joint historical research and education projects. Nevertheless, historians have been unable to effectively...

... are replicated in another environment. It considers the case of the NIOD historians to show that it is completely at odds with how we like to conceive the relation between historians and what they write about. The chapter suggests that studying historical works by means of parallel process theory transcends...

...This book provides a novel perspective on the relationship between institutions, the position of individual historians in relation to the state, and the contours of specific interpretations of the past in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iran. It advances debates about Iranian...

... Subramania Sivam Maṉōṉmaṇīyam Moḻiyaraci Sundaram Pillai P Tamilnadu state prayer song Bharatidasan Karunanidhi M Pondicherry and Tamil devotion Bhārata Mātā “Mother India” Britannia Marianne Suddhananda Bharati and Hindi Lemuria language devotion colonialism gender Indian historians Europe...

... Protestantism and about the post-Protestantism of which he is an example. He asks: When does a personal frame enable a historian to see historical realities that others might not see, and when does it become, instead, a bias? ecumenical Protestants Levenson Joseph R Post Protestant Americans Church...

.... One of the Dictionary's major aims is to detect and correct others' errors, and Bayle shows in detail the faithlessness of others. He offers Suetonius's history as a model to emulate. He finds much to admire, and at the same time much to deplore, in the works of the ancient historians...

...), the most important of the cultural historians of the 1840s and 1850s. His General Cultural History (1843–1852) and General Cultural-Science (1855) are both significant works in the field. Altertumskunde antiquities cultural history daily life study of French Revolution...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the life and work of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963). Kantorowicz is considered one of the most influential of all medieval historians, if not the most influential. His book The King's Two Bodies has been kept in print by Princeton...

...This chapter looks at Hofstadter's book The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (1968). It can be said to be the most conventionally argued book of Hofstadter since The American Political Tradition. Originally conceived as a brief appraisal...

... of these early historians examined the experiences of people of color but often failed to see how their “whiteness” shaped their investigation of the past. Chamber of Commerce Italian colonies consulates denationalization emigrants imagined community Italy Mediterranean South America transnational...

... of Colored People NAACP Randolph A Philip rights consciousness Bowles Chester Bowles Samuel Clinton Bill Gordon David Marx Karl Office of Price Administration OPA Reich Robert Reuther Walter Sweeney John Weisskopf Thomas labor history labor historians working class Great Depression labor...

...This chapter examines the contributions made by “bright young academicians” to discourse about Charles E. Ives during the period 1965–1985. More specifically, it considers the impact that historians who worked under the “American Studies” rubric had on Ives's reception. The chapter first provides...

...This chapter discusses the unaddressed question of historians’ gendered personae. Because gender difference structured historians’ world views, it is necessary to analyse the bond between gender and scholarly personae. The chapter does this by taking two late-Victorian British historians, Edward...

...This chapter looks at the emergence of the English Marxist historian’s scholarly persona, which is traced through the debates over the nature of the English Revolution within the Communist Party of Great Britain. The focus is on the initial phase of these debates, which flared up between 1940...

...This chapter focuses on leprosariums in the Latin West, which became common during the High Middle Ages. Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, historians have noted the rapid increase in the number of leprosariums following the First Crusade. However, controversies rose after Latin Christians...

.... They provide an essential source for many aspects of political history, administrative history, religious history, economic history and social history. It is now commonplace for historians to make use of original documents in their research, and historical features of the archives themselves are becoming more...