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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 149–172.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Alice Bell This is one of those tales of a scientific revolution that never quite came to pass. Science, the movement's would-be revolutionaries argued, had lost its way. It had become too hierarchical and too focused on the whims of senior staff and their cronies. Humanity had allowed its...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 145–150.
Published: 01 October 1995
... with the greatest of admiration. Despite feminist critiques of what has passed as objectivity in the West since the seventeenth-cen- tury Scientific Revolution, there have been few feminist utopian thinkers since Shulamith Firestone. Fearing the universalism incor- porated in early theories...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (71): 196–206.
Published: 01 May 1998
... University Press, 1989); see also Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), and David Noble, A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). 4. Quoted...
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Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (20): 206–237.
Published: 01 May 1979
... industrial development. Yerkes logically collapsed the scientific object of personality into the spiritual value of the person: "It now remains for personnel research to effect a still more significant and beneficial revolution or reformation [than the invention of machines] by making available...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 62–83.
Published: 01 January 2023
... In 1960, in a series of lectures given in Trinidad and published as Modern Politics , James reiterated his theme at greater length, showing his admiration for the tradition of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, but noting that the situation now had changed: It is not the world of nature...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 37–61.
Published: 01 January 2023
... workers or exercise autocratic state power, Reclus saw science as necessary for revolutionary change. 26 The interconnections between Reclus’s scientific and political thought are best summed up in an 1880 address commonly republished in the radical press, “Evolution, Revolution, and the Anarchist...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2017
... as a Western Euro- pean monopoly whose universalization, even if temporarily blocked by the bipolar politics of US-­Soviet rivalry, would inevitably subject the world to the rule of the machine, “a condensed way of referring to the modern techno-­scientific complex.” Lasswell commended Werner Sombart’s...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 149–164.
Published: 01 May 2003
.... Those were physical objects that (once excavated) could be observed. As is well known, it was following the “scientific revolution” of the seven- teenth century that observation came to be construed as the only truly reliable basis...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (71): 217–225.
Published: 01 May 1998
... scientific discourse. All the more disconcerting and confusing, then, has been the late-twentieth- century evolution of the field (especially in the Anglo-American context), a trajectory of increasing scholasticism, abstraction, and introversion. Making sense of this current crisis in modern...
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (48): 33–62.
Published: 01 October 1990
... reserved for the salvation of souls or the daring exploits of the rogue. Science promised to bring peace and prosperity to all, even the poor. The promises of the new scientific revolution no doubt helped to depoliticize the notion of crime, defusing popular disap- pointment at the failed promises...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 173–179.
Published: 01 January 2017
... in the Department of History and officer in the faculty union at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications include two books, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (2008) and Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China...
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (113): 134–142.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., policing, and collecting to one another in the early decades of the twentieth century. In a 1930 pamphlet describing this collection, the authors suggest that the museum will serve national aspirations to high-quality scientific research. But this pamphlet, like some subsequent interpretations, obscures...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 217–232.
Published: 01 January 2020
... masculino ; Kempadoo, Sun, Sex, and Gold ; Cabezas, Economies of Desire ; Fernandez, Revolutionizing Romance ; Allen, Venceremos? ; Stout, After Love . 3. See Arguelles and Rich, “Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Revolution” ; Leiner, Sexual Politics in Cuba ; Lumsden, Machos...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 53–85.
Published: 01 October 1995
... pages. Psychology’s institutional niche in the military, its willingness to tie scientific advance to national security considerations, its theoretical explana lions of third world revolution and development, its convic- tion that behavior and personality could be predictably shaped...
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Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (18): 38–57.
Published: 01 October 1978
... documentary, in that we trace and retrace, write and erase, propose and interpret, lose and recover, build and destroy, indefinitely . But isn't this dialectic what we so often miss in the "scientific" analysis of social reality? All to often we succumb to the temptation to explain historicai...
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Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (44): 32–61.
Published: 01 May 1989
... then, the toiling mas- ses and the party have continued to "grow together" (sblizhalis') with the party guiding the nation through the epochs of "developed" and "mature" socialism via the scientific-technical revolution, agro-industrial integration, and workers' participa- tion-always growing...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 111–126.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the Green Revolution, and global mercury prices influenced by policy decisions based on scientific discoveries in Sweden and North America. We must read these disparate events alongside poor governmental decisions, management, and distribution of the seed on its arrival in Iraq to prop- erly...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 24–36.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of the scientific and technological transformations and to build a new move- ment to redistribute power, making the society more democratic and moving control away from the one percent of the population who hold political power. I use the term biotech century...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 185–194.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Miller’s comprehensive synthesis cover a range of periods and countries — from fifteenth- and sixteenth- century European scientific perspectives on tropical America to twentieth-century export economies. The three monographs focus on specific places and periods: geo- graphical knowledge in the era...
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 47–61.
Published: 01 October 1986
... of feminist theory within the American Socialist Party before World War I. The discourse on evolutionary science, feminism and socialism that emerged among American socialist women during the Progressive Era represents an early episode in the debate over the authority of scientific knowledge and its...