Van Riper chronicles the Victorian debate over the idea of prehistoric human origins within the context of Victorian science, showing how the notion of human antiquity forced... Læs mere
After the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged in African-American popular culture. Pop icons such as Mohammad Ali, James... Læs mere
In a series of tightly argued essays, Stephen Turner traces out the implications that discarding the notion of shared frameworks has for relativism, social constructivism, normativity and a number of other concepts.
This work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their... Læs mere
Growing up an Italian American in New York, Marianna De Marco associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighbourhood from the... Læs mere
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid- twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced.
The 2000 election showed that the mechanics of voting, such as ballot design, can make a critical difference in the accuracy and fairness of U.S. elections. Thompson argues for core democratic principles to underlie the electoral system, for the benefit of the electorate itself.
In this text, the author outlines his geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. Through this theory, he creates connections between the study of specialization and coevolution... Læs mere