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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

How Peircean was the "'Fregean' Revolution" in Logic? [PDF]

arXiv, 2012
The historiography of logic conceives of a Fregean revolution in which modern mathematical logic (also called symbolic logic) has replaced Aristotelian logic. The preeminent expositors of this conception are Jean van Heijenoort (1912-1986) and Donald Angus Gillies.
arxiv  

Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
wiley   +1 more source

Speculative Physics: the Ontology of Theory and Experiment in High Energy Particle Physics and Science Fiction [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
The dissertation brings together approaches across the fields of physics, critical theory, literary studies, philosophy of physics, sociology of science, and history of science to synthesize a hybrid approach for instigating more rigorous and intense cross-disciplinary interrogations between the sciences and the humanities.
arxiv  

The deleterious dominance of The Times in nineteenth-century historiography

, 2013
The Times was a mid-nineteenth-century newspaper phenomenon, defeating rival London newspapers through its skilful management, advanced technology, greater editorial resources and access to powerful politicians. Its authority enabled it to make and break
Andrew Hobbs
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical reasoning and clinical judgment in nursing research: A bibliometric analysis

International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims To characterize the thematic foci, structure, and evolution of nursing research on clinical reasoning and judgment. Design Bibliometric analysis. Methods We used a bibliometric method to analyze 1528 articles. Data source We searched the Scopus bibliographic database on January 7, 2024. Results Through a keyword co‐occurrence analysis, we
Odette Doyon, Louis Raymond
wiley   +1 more source

Telling the whole story: using mulitple lenses for policy analysis [PDF]

, 2013
The poster outlines three critical lenses with potential to more explicitly inform social policy analyses. They are represented here as policy historiography, policy genealogy and policy archaeology.
Abedin, Manzoorul
core  

“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
For the first half of the twentieth century, Australia maintained a firm policy of non‐repatriation. Military personnel who died overseas were buried in vast military cemeteries administered by the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In 1966, however, the Australian government decreed that Australia's war dead could be repatriated, at ...
Kristen Alexander, Kate Ariotti
wiley   +1 more source

Phases of physics in J.D. Forbes' Dissertation Sixth for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1856) [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
This paper takes James David Forbes' Encyclopaedia Britannica entry, Dissertation Sixth, as a lens to examine physics as a cognitive, practical, and social, enterprise. Forbes wrote this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mathematical and physical sciences, in 1852-6, when British "physics" was at a pivotal point in its history, situated ...
arxiv  

“It's Time for Action and Not Excuses”: Advisors and Leaders in Phuoc Tuy, 1968–1973

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article explores the challenges faced by American and Australian advisors working in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam, from 1968 to 1973, with a focus on the persistent belief that ineffective Vietnamese leadership was the principal obstacle to a successful pacification process. It examines how advisors identified underperformance among officials
Tom Richardson
wiley   +1 more source