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Einstein, Evolution of Knowledge, and the Anthropocene: A Critical Reading of Jürgen Renn's Historiography [PDF]

arXiv
This article offers a critical engagement with J\"urgen Renn's historiographical approach, with particular focus on "The Evolution of Knowledge" and "The Einsteinian Revolution" (co-authored with Hanoch Gutfreund). It explores how Renn reinterprets Albert Einstein's contributions to modern physics, especially special and general relativity, not ...
arxiv  

Teaching a Course on the History of Behavior Analysis. [PDF]

Perspect Behav Sci, 2022
Morris EK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the impact of local political institutions on inequality in eastern England between c. 1350 and c. 1550. Specifically, it examines the extent to which wealthier individuals controlled local governance structures in the form of manor courts through linking the identities of individuals who served as manorial officials ...
Spike Gibbs
wiley   +1 more source

On the Etymology of Adel [PDF]

, 2009
A light-hearted tour of the historiography of the etymology of Adel, a parish in North Leeds, resisting the twentieth-century concensus of Old English adela (‘filth, dirt, dirty place; foul filth; bilge-water’ and possibly even ‘sewer, privy’) in favour ...
Hall, Alaric
core  

Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth‐century Italy

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the impact of Italy's 1887–8 health reforms on mortality, contributing to the historical debate on the state's role in Europe's health transition. Leveraging event‐study‐style difference‐in‐differences approach, we assess the effectiveness of the Crispi–Pagliani reforms, which strengthened public health governance and ...
Francesco Maria Salvatore Fiore Melacrinis, Mauro Rota   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Menorah Review (No. 52, Spring/Summer, 2001) [PDF]

, 2001
Zionism and Postzionism: Recent Re-Evaluations of Ideology and Historiography -- Mirror Images? -- Righteous Memorial -- Funny, You Don\u27t Look One Hundred -- Morality After the Holocaust -- A Legend for John Keats -- New Directions in Jewish Ethics --

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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Aspekt historiograficzny Herodota, Tukidydesa i Plutarcha w chrystologii Dziejów Apostolskich

Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2019
The first part of the article describes the beginnings of ancient historiography and presents the methods used by the first Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch.
Katarzyna Sługocka
doaj  

The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
wiley   +1 more source

[When the present can help refine interpretations of the past: covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics]. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos, 2023
Armus D.
europepmc   +1 more source