The grand "Soviet experiment" constituted an attempt to greatly accelerate and even shortcut the gradual course of historical development on the assumption of presumed knowledge of the general laws of history. This paper discusses the parts of that experiment that directly concerned scientific research and, in fact, anticipated or helped define important global changes in the functioning of sci...

The substantive issue of shaping local Chinese identity for social cohesion in the face of internal social disruption, external communist threats and international cold-war politics was one of the key policy challenges of the British colonial government. This article examines how education could support the formation and establishment of pro-British-government Chinese identities in colonial Hon...

The non-cooperative nationalist organization movement in the 1930s came under pressure from colonial government through enactment of vergader verbod so that most organizations dissolved and their former cadres joined cooperative movement. New PNI as a was still able to survive midst repressive economic depression hit Dutch East Indies economy. discussion this article focuses on ups downs 1931-1...

In post-colonial India the female foeticide, a practice evolved from customary female infanticide of pre-colonial and colonial period, committed though in separate incidents, has made it almost a unified wave of mass murder. It does not fulfil the widely accepted existing definition of genocide but the high rate of abortion of legitimate girl-foetus by Indian parents makes their crime a kind of...

The history of disease and health in colonial Sri Lanka has been largely ignored. Historians of colonial economic and social policies in that country have produced a deluge of materials without mentioning the impact of colonial labour policy on the health of the indigenous people.' Meanwhile, even those who have written on the history of medicine in Sri Lanka have not fully accounted for coloni...

The relationship of the colonial morphology of Pasteurella pestis to its virulence has been controversial. Gotschlich (1900), Markl (1914), Petrie (1929), Burgess (1930), Otten (1936), Bhatnagar (1940) and Jawetz and Meyer (1943) described numerous colonial types for which interchangeable descriptions are lacking. Most agreed upon an inconstant hereditary transmission of colonial characteristic...