Reviewed by Roy Porter, M.A., Ph.D., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Rd, London NWI 2BP. In his brisk and clear book, Professor Anderson traces the development of historical interpretation of some leading issues of eighteenth-century history from the verdicts of contemporaries up to the present day. Changing evaluations of eighteenthcentury rulers such as Frederick th...

Title of Dissertation: THE REPUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS: ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND JAMES MADISON ON THE 18 CENTURY CRITIQUE OF REPUBLICS Michael C. Evans, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation Directed By: Associate Professor Wayne V. McIntosh Department of Government and Politics This study offers a new interpretation of the theoretical basis of the political alliance and rupture between Alexander...

Two geographers specializing in Russian agriculture and rural development present an exploratory essay on the phenomenon of agricultural land abandonment in the countryside of European Russia. A particular focus is on investigating the relative importance of physical conditions (fertility) and proximity to regional population centers in explaining the prevalence of land abandonment. A map depic...

considering native modernism existence, iranian constitutional revolution can be contemplated as an exordium for cultural transition because constitutionalism movement played a significant role in transferring modern concepts to iran. this kind of perception about modernism oversees the experimental and practical events, and also provides the opportunity to survey art system shift in the contex...

-   ahmadi, m., kaboli, m., imani harsini, j., khosravi sharifabadi, r., almasi, m., 2012. strategic management plan for wolf (canis lupus) in hamedan province: an approach to reducing human-wolf conflicts. journal of natural environment, iranian journal of natural resources. 65, 271–281. -   ballard, w.b., dau, j.r., 1983. characteristics of gray wolf, canis lupus, den and rendezvous sites in ...

Inequality in distribution of resources is a key aspect of evolutionary biology particularly in relation to distribution of mates and copulations. Notwithstanding its important role, inequality is not easily defined, and its measurement is complicated by theoretical and methodological issues. Although the formal treatment of inequality has been mostly limited to the evolution of lek mating syst...

A TWOFOLD PROCESS CAN BE SEEK in the growth of science: the fragmentation of formal disciplines and a recombination of the specialties resulting from this fragmentation. The division of disciplines into specialized subfields has led to the development of hybrid specialties. The process of hybridization consists, first of all, of borrowing and lending concepts, methods, theories, and praxes. The...

•Great apes exchange signals and gaze before entering exiting joint actions•Joint action structure of both ape species resembles that humans•Coordinated phases indicate an underlying commitment•Social bonds affect more in bonobos than chimpanzees Many social animals interact jointly, but only humans experience a specific sense obligation toward their co-participants, commitment. However, commit...

What narratives accompany the emergence of a negative reputation? I combine research on public organizations’ reputation with narrative analysis. Narratives offer multiple benefits to reputational research, playing an important role in human cognition and comprising social constructions both organizations other actors. Organizations profit from insights analysis concerning their management. app...

The early reception of German letters in London can be better understood through a close reading the bookseller Constantin Geisweiler's short-lived journal Museum (1800–1801). 1790s have been described as an era literary ‘Germanomania’, numerous translations works appeared for first time English. By 1800, however, increasingly pejorative assessment supposedly pro-Jacobin and atheistic character...