social-science concepts to "fit" the historical sources. 43 And it is especially important not to forget the contributions, and indeed the suffering, of those historians forced to flee Nazi persecution after 1933. But if, as a previous volume in this series has shown," German historical scholarship in the postwar era was significantly shaped by those who had left after 1933, it was also profoun...

This is a personal account of scholarship in the history of medicine in Britain, from the 1960s onwards, drawn from recollections and knowledge of the literature. The institutional development of the subject is reviewed, emphasizing the contributions of the Wellcome Trust; the various modes of historical research and writing are surveyed and assessed. Modest suggestions are made for renewing th...

This text constitutes a summary of the author's recent book on Gustave Lietard (1833 - 1904) and Palmyr Cordier (1871 - 1914), the first historians of Ayurveda in France. In this book, their writings are reprinted and analysed in a long introduction of Ayurvedic historiography.

The grand "Soviet experiment" constituted an attempt to greatly accelerate and even shortcut the gradual course of historical development on the assumption of presumed knowledge of the general laws of history. This paper discusses the parts of that experiment that directly concerned scientific research and, in fact, anticipated or helped define important global changes in the functioning of sci...

A researcher in the field of history pays attention to the science of the historiographies characteristics presented by different sects. The present study aimed to survey the most important features of Orientalist historiography in contemporary Iran. Based on the results, the components of colonial Orientalist historiography origins are as follows: the distortion and denial of Islam, the perver...