History, Narratives and Realities

History of Industrial Biotransformations – Dreams and Realities

Throughout the history of mankind, microorganisms have been of enormous social and economic importance. Without even being aware of their existence, very early on in history man was using them in the production of food and beverages. The Sumerians and Babylonians were practising the brewing of beer before 6000BC, references to wine making can be found in the Book of Genesis and the Egyptians us...

Narratives of the history of American medicine.

Historical Personalities: Tweeting Standard Narratives in the History of Science

During the Annual History of Science Society 2013 meeting, a round table on social media, ‘The Pleasures and Dangers of Social Media’, was organised as a part of a continuing conversation about the role that social media plays in providing leads for research, in constructing course syllabi, and even for opening conversations about the role of archives in historical research and what that could ...

Peasant Narratives Memorial Book Sources for Jerusalem Village History

How do we write about Palestinian village life in the first half of the 20th century? The absence of peasants and other nonelites from the social and cultural history of this period contrasts with the prominent role they play in contemporary scholarship regarding the political history of this period. In similar situations in other parts of the world, historians are left with only official recor...

Dollarization: Myths and Realities