Heroic Mexico. The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation

Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture, and the Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (review)

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Schemas of the Nation in Modern Democracies

This study develops a novel analytical approach for studying popular conceptions of the nationstate that accounts for both withinand between-country heterogeneity and avoids a priori assumptions about the national boundedness of culture. I identify widely shared attitudinal patterns among a pooled sample of over 27,000 respondents from thirty countries and only subsequently examine those respon...

The Emergence of China as a Leading Nation in Science

China has become the fifth leading nation in terms of its share of the world’s scientific publications. The citation rate of papers with a Chinese address for the corresponding author also exhibits exponential growth. More specifically, China has become a major player in critical technologies like nanotechnology. Although it is difficult to delineate nanoscience and nanotechnology, we show that...

The emergence of modern cardiology.