A timely update released before the FIFA World Cup in South Africa during the summer of 2010, Laduma! Soccer, Politics and Society in South Africa, from its Origins to 2010 brings Peter Alegi's work forward from the original ending in his first edition up to 2010. The work adds to the historiography of South Africa as it examines the political and social context of football during the struggle ...

The authors of The History Manifesto respond to the Viewpoint commentary and extend the dialogue between the book's arguments and the recent historiography of science, technology, and medicine.

Abstract Slavery and warfare were inextricably intertwined in the history of Britain’s North American colonies and, subsequently, early republic. Yet this deep connection has not been acknowledged historiography. In particular, debate about an “American way war” neglected profound significance slavery as a formative factor America’s “first war.” Here, these two forms organized, systemic violenc...

at the same time fundamental public criticism of it and a need for alternative therapies (cf. pp. 31 9f.). Labisch sees two ways out of this situation: a new concentration on medicine as an art that deals with human beings, and permanent ethical self-contemplation. This comprehensive and concise history of health in the modem period can contribute to a better informed and more objective debate ...

This text aims to unite two neglected areas of study in Colombian medical historiography: disfiguring disease and the concept of climate. It seeks to show how physicians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Colombia associate a clinical semiology of disfiguring disease with the influence of certain climatic and hereditary conditions. Characterizing disfiguring disease associa...

social-science concepts to "fit" the historical sources. 43 And it is especially important not to forget the contributions, and indeed the suffering, of those historians forced to flee Nazi persecution after 1933. But if, as a previous volume in this series has shown," German historical scholarship in the postwar era was significantly shaped by those who had left after 1933, it was also profoun...

This is a personal account of scholarship in the history of medicine in Britain, from the 1960s onwards, drawn from recollections and knowledge of the literature. The institutional development of the subject is reviewed, emphasizing the contributions of the Wellcome Trust; the various modes of historical research and writing are surveyed and assessed. Modest suggestions are made for renewing th...

This article examines controversies surrounding the implementation of the first colonial indigenous health service, the Assistance Médicale, in Cambodia. It characterizes individual and group behaviours in the immediate social conditions of colonial Cambodian society, as well as some of the paradoxes of the modernization narrative ascribed to the colonial science of this period. This discussion...

This text constitutes a summary of the author's recent book on Gustave Lietard (1833 - 1904) and Palmyr Cordier (1871 - 1914), the first historians of Ayurveda in France. In this book, their writings are reprinted and analysed in a long introduction of Ayurvedic historiography.