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Author | : Jose R. Torre |
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Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
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Aims to modify the periodization for the American Enlightenment. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. This collection highlights the functional nature of the Enlightenment in America.
Author | : Jose R. Torre |
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
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Aims to modify the periodization for the American Enlightenment. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. This collection highlights the functional nature of the Enlightenment in America.
Author | : Jose R. Torre |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
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Author | : Theodore M. Porter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691210543 |
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
Author | : Bram Gieben |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1993-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780745609607 |
Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political, economic, social and cultural life which characterize modern societies, from their origins in early modern Europe to the nineteenth century. It examines the roots of modern knowledge and the birth of the social sciences in the Enlightenment, and analyses the impact on the emerging identity of 'the West' of its encounters through exploration, trade, conquest and colonization, with 'other civilizations'. Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges and also to readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from a broad range of classical writers (Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Freud, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and contemporary thinkers (Michael Mann, E.P. Thompson, Edward Said) are integrated in each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.
Author | : Michael Adas |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801497605 |
This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
Author | : Peter M. Jones |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526130319 |
Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world’s first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological ‘know how’ to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728–1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.
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Total Pages | : 2600 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : E. Mendelsohn |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401011869 |