“You Must Become Dreamy”: Complicating Japanese-American Pictorialism and the Early Twentieth-Century Regional West

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century

As man is now changing the composition of the atmosphere at a rate which must be very exceptional on the geological time scale, it is natural to seek for the probable effects of such a change. From the best laboratory observations it appears that the principal result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide would be a gradual increase in the mean temperature of the colder regions of the earth. ...

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

On the Causes and Dynamics of the Early Twentieth-Century North American Pluvial*

The early twentieth-century North American pluvial (1905–17) was one of the most extreme wet periods of the last 500 yr and directly led to overly generous water allotments in the water-limited American west. Here, the causes and dynamics of the pluvial event are examined using a combination of observation-based datasets and general circulationmodel (GCM) experiments. The character of themoistu...

Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities: Intestinal Worm Infections in the Early Twentieth-Century American South

While the use of ancestry, ethnicity or race in contemporary medical and scientific research is controversial and the subject of debate in the United States, a hypothesis of ‘racial’ differentials in susceptibilities to disease has utility in the American historical context. This study employs a dataset of 542 residents of Marion County, South Carolina, collected in 1922 by medical teams to inv...