Different historical approaches to science and medicine may be related to the author's primary training. Those whose first training has been in science have tended to publish biographies of distinguished scientists, histories of various specialities or well-known institutions: they have edited original texts and studied the priorities or significance of important discoveries. With some exceptio...

The Presence of Messianism and Millenarianism in Brazilian Folk Religiosity the Late Nineteenth Early Twentieth Centuries In late nineteenth early twentieth centuries, numerous unorthodox Christian religious communities sprang up many parts vast interior. Their worldview basis was belief that present life takes place times cosmic social crisis. Waiting for day Last Judgement associated with att...

This article draws attention to the case of Aceh analyse mechanisms through which ideologically driven geographic imaginings obscured role place and class in colonial anti-colonial violence Indonesia. Its main perspective is region's West Coast. In course long brutal Dutch-Acehnese war (1873–1942), Coast Sumatra was transformed from a dynamic centre trade, commerce, religious renewal into front...

Abstract The American Puritan layman Samuel Sewall (d. 1730) is perhaps best known as a diarist and repentant judge in the Salem witchcraft trials. But he was also author of Phaenomena quaedam apocalyptica (first edition 1697), work which argued that New Jerusalem would arise Mexico City. Sewall’s unusual millennial doctrine may seem undeserving study, for no other thought first appear City or ...