Textile Work Connected with American Colonial History

Height, Crime and Colonial History

Since the 1970s historians interested in the impact of changing social and economic conditions on health outcomes have studied record collections that contain information about adult stature. Fluctuations in mean height by year of birth are potentially informative because they should reflect conditions encountered in utero and during the early years of life. Yet, like all historical records, su...

Tense and tender ties: the politics of comparison in North American history and (post) colonial studies.

Recent work connected with the Kakeya problem

where Sn−1 is the unit sphere in R. This paper will be mainly concerned with the following issue, which is still poorly understood: what metric restrictions does the property (1) put on the set E? The original Kakeya problem was essentially whether a Kakeya set as defined above must have positive measure, and as is well-known, a counterexample was given by Besicovitch in 1920. A current form of...

History of American pediatrics

adventures in the South Seas as "Voyager, Monster-hunter and Amoroso". Lyte makes the most of the comic possibilities of the pursuit of his hero by the voracious middle-aged queen Purea; nor does he forget his English mistress Miss B--n. As the subtitle suggests, Banks's early travels loom much larger in this book than the long afternoon of correspondence and power as President of the Royal Soc...

The colonial context of Filipino American immigrants' psychological experiences.

Because of the long colonial history of Filipinos and the highly Americanized climate of postcolonial Philippines, many scholars from various disciplines have speculated that colonialism and its legacies may play major roles in Filipino emigration to the United States. However, there are no known empirical studies in psychology that specifically investigate whether colonialism and its effects h...