... of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), attempted something new: to move beyond professional genealogies and traditions in order to try and critically apprehend the self-proclaimed “new” science of data, which has strong ties to what some might call “scientific entrepreneurship” and which, as part...

...Preemptive Media MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte, and Brooke Singer) Surveillance Creep! New Manifestations of Data Surveillance at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Preemptive Media (Beatriz...

... it, in a "society of the spectacle," in which "every- thing that was directly lived has moved away into representation," when and how did this begin, and were the initial test audiences for such a society enthusiastic, wary, or both?' Questions about the decline of participatory democracy in the United...

..., not only for the Hopi, but also for other societies. Two works edited by Alice Schlegel-who did field work among the Hopi -offer excellent discussions and comparative data on the prob- lems of Male Dominance and Female Autonomy and Sexual Stratifica- tion. 182 RADICAL HISTORY...

...-scale data sets, and this is exactly what he set out to accomplish with the Irish survey. The goal was something that was consistent in Hooton’s work, to find a typical or “average” racial type across a population rather than in an individual. Hence the title of one of his wartime studies of Harvard...

... based on these data."3 He defines ethnohistory as "an interdisciplinary approach to the study of past cultures, traditional or tribal societies, and specific social or cultural phenomena, incorporating the best principles and methods of history and anthropology" and concludes...

... challenges revisionist scholars who argue that Ulster Presbyterians' post-1798 embrace of the Union and the Orange Order was rapid, inevitable, and natural. “Heirs of Freedom” or “Slaves to England”? Protestant Society and Unionist Hegemony in Nineteenth-Century Ulster Kerby A. Miller Over...

...Niki Akhavan This book review compares Mehdi Semati's Media, Culture, and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State and Nasrin Alavi's We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs . Both works recognize the significance of media in shaping and understanding contemporary Iranian society...

... industrial societies of the mid-­twentieth century, radicals actively sought to inte- grate a critique of technoscience into the political and social lives of citizens and activists. As a result, radicals’ various positions on the questions of science, technol- ogy, and society have had, and continue...

... introduce them- selves with photographs. Cushman gazes at us from the back jacket, directly and frankly; Boym appears inside the book, from a snapshot of Khrushchev’s toppled monument, a clumsy shadow with a cam- era. Historians, particularly the sort that like their data hard, should beware. Both...

... that the opportunity arose to undertake a compar- ative study of Caribbean and Indian Ocean slave societies. The New York Public Library and the library at Columbia University offered rich material on slavery. Reading the works of Columbia’s historians such as Eric Foner also proved inspira- tional. It opened...

...: ?his data was compiled from a list of 10,231 individuals who were in one way or another killed by the Iranian republic's regime. ?he greatest number of "martyrs" belongs to the Mojahedin organization. l3e tableis based on characteristics of 863 members of secular left-wing organizations...

..., there is only geography, topography, climate, and vegetation; each of these has its own history.8 Language data, draped across that context, become the trace evidence of knowledge created and choices made. Material culture connects the two bodies of work. These ideas are introduced to students...

... ready to fall in love with an emotionally irresistible company environment. Many were stunned to find out that a workplace could accommodate freedom and humanity . . . qualities [that] were not readily apparent in society at large, nor were...

... academic and public historians, archivists, librarians, and directors and staff members of museums and historical societies in New York and New Jersey gathered at the Museum of the City of New York and spent an intense few hours pondering appropriate responses to the collection, preservation...

...-rich computers unfettered by national or geographic boundaries—that allows for multiple users in multiple loca- tions to communicate, organize, and access data and transcend time and space by meeting in cyberspace. The increasingly broader use...

...Joel Beinin Copyright ©1991 MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1991 THE PAST IN PRINT Class, Ethnicity, Gender, National Conflict, and the Formation of Israeli Society Joel Beinin Amir Ben-Porat...

...Peter Alegi; Amy Bass; Adrian Burgos, Jr.; Brenda Elsey; Martha Saavedra University courses on sport and society have increased exponentially over the past decade, motored by student interest and the acceptance of cultural studies in the academy. This online forum, organized and coordinated...

... between the individual and society. The first gave ontological priority to unbound individuals as the ”original data’’ of society; it underwrote all versions of ”contract theory,” found ethical expression in utilitarian- ism, and treated every institution, including the state, as “a device...

... not have data on land distribution or income for the region of Puno, center of the wool-producing zone, but descriptive materials also indicate a society of relatively small landholdings and Indian villages, all actively en• gaged in production for not only the local, but the foreign market...