What Price History: Politics, Commercialism, and Urban Preservation

نقدی بر کتاب History: What and Why?

نوشتار حاضر به نقد و بررسی کتاب تاریخ: چیستی و چرایی آن، نوشته بِوِرلی ساوث گیت اختصاص دارد. در این مقاله نشان داده ایم که این اثر نه یک کتاب اجتهادی و نوآورانه، که صرفاً یک متن درسی تألیفی است در باب یکی از مهم‌ترین پرسش­های فلسفه تاریخ، یعنی این پرسش که آیا تاریخ از عینیت برخوردار است یا نه؟ مولف به خوبی توانسته است دیدگاه متقدمان و متأخران، یعنی متفکران باستان و متفکران بعد از عصر روشنگری را تب...

Mediating urban politics

Where is Urban Politics ?

What price community medicine? The philosophy, practice and politics of public health since 1919

that AIDS is a "racial poison", compared to which the threats to the health of the population identified by the earlier social hygiene movement pale into insignificance! But even to raise such issues is to draw attention to the enormous changes that have occurred in the social framework of discussion on public health since the period that Greta Jones has skilfully anaylsed in this book. As Jane...

Urban environmental history: what lessons are there to be learnt?

The paper traces the emergence of urban environmental history first in the United States and since the 1990s increasingly also in Europe. It identifies the development of large technical networks which provide cities with water and energy and which serve to take problematic substances and waste out of urban areas as a central theme of this new subfield where scholars from urban history, environ...