Political Influence on Theatre Historiography

Peruvian Political Theatre and its Connections to Human Rights Movements

Pharmaceutical Historiography

Pharmaceutical Historiography, ed. by A. BERMAN (Proceedings of a Colloquium sponsored by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy on the occasion of the Institute's 25th Anniversary, Madison, Wisconsin, 22-23 January, 1966), Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, 1967, pp. 145, $2.00. This volume deals with (a) George Urdang's concepts on the framework of ...

Mark Blaug on the historiography of economics

This paper discusses how Mark Blaug reversed his thinking about the historiography of economics, abandoning ‘rational’ for ‘historical’ reconstruction, and using an economics of scientific knowledge argument against Paul Samuelson and others that rational reconstructions of past ideas and theories in the “marketplace of ideas” were Pareto inefficient. Blaug’s positive argument for historical re...

Reflections on the historiography of molecular biology.

SURELY the time has come to stop applying the word revolution to the rise of new scientific research programmes. Our century has seen many upheavals in scientific ideas--so many and so varied that the notion of scientific revolution has been stretched out of shape and can no longer be made to cover the processes of change characteristic of most sciences these past hundred years. By general cons...

Distributing News and Political Influence

Mass media affect both who receives political information, and what information is received. This influences policy formation since politicians tend to favor informed voters and well covered issues. Politicians do so for good reasons, not only are well informed voters more likely to vote than uninformed voters,1 but also more likely to vote for the candidate who furthers their interests.2 Voter...