decisions as how much of a good to produce, how to make it, and what to ß charge for it, their behavior is nothing if not the subject of economic theory. At the same time, however, businesses are organizations of people whose choices are affected by the social and cultural environment inwhich they live and work. Hence understanding how businesses operated in the past and why they succeeded orfa...

The relationship between historians and film has been difficult. The first step for historians was to recognize film as a worthwhile source to study, a process which started in the 1960s. Paul Smith‘s The Historian and Film, published in 1976 (Smith, 1976) was the first publication in the English language on this topic and has been regarded as a milestone (Jackson, 1977: 713). By then, films we...

A researcher in the field of history pays attention to the science of the historiographies characteristics presented by different sects. The present study aimed to survey the most important features of Orientalist historiography in contemporary Iran. Based on the results, the components of colonial Orientalist historiography origins are as follows: the distortion and denial of Islam, the perver...

Gender, Race, and the West 12 December 2014 Passions, Property, and Power: Mexican-Anglo Marriage in the Spanish Borderlands Interracial unions, as well as the legal and social prohibitions against such unions, reflect the ways in which societies consolidate power and regulate domestic arrangements. In the southwest, the study of intermarriage illuminates the intersection of race, gender, and c...