Modern Colonialism, Eurocentrism and Historical Archaeology: Some Engendered Thoughts

From Historical Perspectives to Some Modern Possibilities

A historical perspective on the study of asymmetries in planetary nebulae (PNs) is presented. We also describe our ongoing work in high resolution spectroscopy of planetaries, and discuss some likely future directions for the study of asymmetrical PNs. The first systematic study of planetary nebulae (PNs) was undertaken at Lick Observatory from 1914 to 1917 and is reported in detail in Volume 1...

Some Historical Thoughts on the ee-Learning Renaissance

The core concept of ee-learning is that the real world becomes the learning environment; in this environment, the purpose of the instructor is to help the distant and/or time-shifted student assimilate and evaluate his or her real world experiences, share them with others, and relate them to the disciplines of the academy. ee-Learning is similar to e-learning in that they both involve technolog...

Excavation Techniques in Historical Archaeology

This paper discusses the development of excavation techniques in England and their application to historical archaeology in Australia. Edward Higginbotham, a consultant archaeologist in Sydney, applies his experience of excavations in both countries to a critical analysis of various excavation methods, including test-pits, trial-trenches, the grid method, and area excavation. The advantages, ef...

Self and similitude: translating difference (modern colonialism and renaissance conquests)

Colonialism and Modern Income -- Islands as Natural Experiments

Using a new database of islands throughout the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans we find a robust positive relationship between the number of years spent as a European colony and current GDP per capita. We argue that the nature of discovery and colonization of islands provides random variation in the length and type of colonial experience. We instrument for length of colonization using variat...