Writing Western History: Essays on Major Western Historians

Sufism in the Western History : A Primary Outline

The phenomenon of Western Sufi teachers is unique, not just because of the individuals themselves, though they are certainly fascinating, but because of what they represent: the flowering of the Western genius, which has discovered Eastern traditions, absorbed them and in the process changed them and been changed by them. This paper is a primary outline of the main contours of this phenomenon, ...

A History of Western Philosophy

Western medicine: an illustrated history

Students of the history of medicine long complained that there was no single volume available that expounded to a general audience the results of the massive changes that have taken place within the subject over the last thirty years. Now, English readers have a choice between three such histories of medicine, and a fourth, written by Roy Porter alone, will appear shortly. Of those in print, th...

Western Spruce Budworm Outbreak History

Western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis Freeman) outbreak history was reconstructed for the Sacramento Mountains of south -central New Mexico, at the southern limit of the species distribution range. Six host tree -ring width chronologies (Douglas -fir and white fir) and three non -host control chronologies (ponderosa pine) were used for this reconstruction spanning from 1800 to 1990...

Obstetrical events that shaped Western European history.

Taking into account that marriage, the family as a social unit, and concepts of legitimacy developed to ensure the devolution of property and that, when these concepts apply in a society based on hierarchically organized monarchies, they also involve the devolution of power, this essay furnishes examples of dislocations in such devolutions, in terms of familiar incidents in western European his...