The Way West: Art of Frontier America

Field Surgery on the North-West Frontier

Notwithstanding the numerous expeditions against the warlike tribes on the north-west and north-east frontiers of British India within recent years, there is a remarkable dearth, in medical literature, of information regarding the nature of tho diseases from which the troops suffered during thoso expeditions, and of the wounds inflicted upon them by the enemy. To meet this want in some small me...

Green Migration into Rural America: The New Frontier of Environmentalism?

I ~ I U J J help ex-plain rising leilels qf support ,for environnzentul values in n ~ a n j ~ rural areus. In purricular, it ussesses cr tvorlel of "green t77igrarioi1" that a.s.sztn~es [hut doi~zestic in-migrution, i+lit/i its impacts on the character atzrl corliposirion of rural i.or?it?izinifirs, is one of the reasons ctii~irotzn~ei~tal v lues ma?, be gmiiiing .support in rural Anzerica. Res...

The innovation landscape of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province

This paper examines the industrial innovation landscape of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) presenting results from its first innovation survey (2008). Analysing data collected from 304 industrial firms, this paper confirms that only 14% of the surveyed firms possessed an in-house research and development unit and around 50% of firms have no scientists or engineers working for the...

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

The History of Art based on the Artist in Two Worlds: The Beginning of Art History in the West and Iran

In the West, the history of writing on art goes back to the classical antiquity but writing art history began with Giorgio Vasari’s 16th-century pioneering work on the artists’ biographies. In the present article, the authors follow the preliminary conditions that led to the birth and development of art history in the western world. The first important comparison is between the birth time of ar...