Re-inventing the Ancien Régime in Post-Napoleonic Europe

Title Famine and market in Ancien Régime France

Inventing and Re-Inventing the Juvenile Delinquent in British History

This article explores the development of historical writing on British youth delinquency over the last two decades, with some reference to broader European and North American influences. The article outlines the early analyses of historical juvenile crime, particularly in relation to the influence of ‘history from below’ approaches, and the history of childhood. It then moves on to consider the...

Re-Inventing Rulemaking

Bob Anthony and Tom McGarity both maki a number of important, perceptive points, and I find myself in substantial agreement with each of them. I have only two principal disagreements with Bob Anthony. First, I believe that a court should not go behind the objective terms of a statement of agency policy to speculate about whether the statement was "really intended" to bind the public. If by its ...

The charitable imperative: hospitals and nursing in ancien régime and Revolutionary France

sometimes meagre, this is because the descriptions were probably sent to the consultant and were not written by him. Consultants compensated for this by attempting to explain every phenomenon connected with the illness and, when unable to give complete descriptions of diseases, by relying on doctrine and experience. It is the tempering of established doctrine with contemporary developments and ...

Re - inventing Willis

Scientists often re-invent things which were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain experimental data on the sizes of biological genera, collected by Willis. We estimate that scientists are busy re-discovering America about 2/3 of time.  The book of Ecclesiastes says: “Is there...