This paper argues that the present-day disagreements over the right course for sociology and its public role are reflected and paralleled in contemporary historiography of Robert Owen, British social reformer and a self-described social scientist. Historical accounts, written from the perspectives of public sociology, "pure science" sociology, and anti-Marxism, interpret Owen's historical role ...

This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and the efforts to control it. It will also assess how successful these efforts were. The article is designed to contribute fresh perspectives on recent controversies in the historiography of drugs in Asia to ar...

This paper explores the Venetological re-interpretations of Slovenian origins, according to which Slovenes are not Slavs but Venets, the autochthonous European population, unrelated to anyone around them, culturally distinct and ancient. Although this paper deals with questions of historiography, it does not purport to be a historiographical analysis. Instead, it should be seen as an examinatio...

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the importance or centrality of persian histories (whether imperial, regional or universal) can be gauged from the deep reliance placed by british historians on them for their own understanding of india’s past. the examples are numerous: dow, erskine, elliot and dowson explored persian sources for their writings. stewart also based his history of bengal mainly on persian materials; mill did not...

This paper provides a reassessment of historical debates about the nature of popular movements in and around the year 1000, with particular reference to the work of Richard Landes and Dominique Barthélemy. Heresy and heresy accusations do not feature in the classical historiography of millennialism in medieval Europe, including Norman Cohn’s Pursuit of the Millennium. Nor does the assertion tha...

While modern musicology has seen the frequent exploration of issues of historiography and canonicity, biography itself has largely eluded critical investigation until much more recently. The discipline has lately challenged the aesthetic of musical canon, for many decades a largely uncontested phenomenon, as well as that of the Great Composer. Recent scholarship has similarly addressed the matt...