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...His Majesty King Michael of Romania; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay presents a critical account of the social and political history of postcommunist Romania from the time of the violent overthrow of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s communist dictatorial regime in 1989 to the writing of the essay in 1995. King...

...Colin Richmond In the context of an issue of Common Knowledge dedicated to instances of experimental scholarship and to discussion of them, this contribution by a social historian of medieval England sets out to demonstrate that an empirical alternative to tendentious and interpretive...

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... and unexacting in comparison with their own, and math- ematical physicists appear to regard their experimentalist colleagues as basically engineers. Natural scientists, in general, tend to include the social sciences with the humanities under the rubric of “fuzzy studies.” Meanwhile, within each...

... generated by the state’s effort to penetrate and organize social life, this oppositional discourse reimagined the most basic, body-mediated interactions through which people connect to other people outside of political or even social structures. Crucial to this project, however, is to distinguish...

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... for more than twenty years at La Trobe University. Daniel Cottom is the author of Cannibals and Philosophers, Why Education Is Useless, Abyss of Reason, The Civilized Imagination, Text and Culture, Social Figures, and Ravishing Tradition. He holds the David...