The narrative patterning of historiography changed profoundly around 1800. Instead of the accumulative, encyclopaedic format typical of the 18th century, a historical narrative hinged on the progress of mankind became viable (Condorcet, Fichte etc.). This also had an impact on the writing of the history of mathematics. An interesting testimony of this transition can be found inAlexander vonHumb...

This paper examines how links between the People's Republic of China and the UK were rebuilt in the 1970s. It not only fills a gap in the historiography but also makes three particular arguments. The first is that there were two intersecting institutional paths along which the rebuilding of links were followed: a foreign policy path, in which the most important body was the Foreign and Commonwe...

Within the context of the return to democracy, the new constitution enacted in 1988 transformed health into an individual right and initiated the process of creating a public, universal and decentralized health system, profoundly altering the organization of public health in Brazil. This article discusses the main institutional, political and social aspects of this health reform, along with the...

Historical accounts of colonial science and medicine have failed to engage with the Colonial Office’s shift in focus towards the support of research after 1940. A large new fund was created in 1940 to expand activities in the colonies described as fundamental research. With this new funding came a qualitative shift in the type of personnel and activity sought for colonial development and, as a ...

This article surveys the history of Irish-Australian autobiography and memoir as a form writing particularly well adapted to exploring tensions compromises identity. It draws on selected works published from early colonial period end twentieth century written by men women across wide social spectrum, archbishops, politicians academics bushrangers, barmaids poets. focuses process self-constructi...

Enomoto, Masatoshi (National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan) and Tetsuo Iino. Colonial dimorphism in nonmotile Salmonella. J. Bacteriol. 86:473-477. 1963.-Two distinct colonial types, LP-type and SD-type, appeared among the nonmotile mutant clones originated from a strain of Salmonella typhimurium when they were cultivated on semisolid gelatin-agar medium (NGA) at 37 C. These colonial ty...

British sociology was established as an academic discipline between 1945 and 1965, just as the British Empire was gearing up for a new phase of developmental colonialism backed by the social and other sciences. Many parts of the emerging sociological discipline became entangled with colonialism. Key themes and methods in sociology and the staff of sociology departments emerged from this colonia...

Studies on the history of medicine and psychiatry in former British colonies have multiplied in recent years.1 The relevance of medicine and psychiatry in Britain to the development of colonial medicine and psychiatry within various Anglo-Saxon colonial settings has been firmly established.2 Yet the existence of any reverse impact is less certain. Although historians who specialize on developme...

We describe a new species of bent-toed gecko from a single specimen initially collected in 1924 by Malcolm Smith on Timor Island in the Lesser Sunda Archipelago of Indonesia. Cyrtodactylus celatus sp. nov. is distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: small adult size; without spinose tubercles on the ventrolateral body fold and along the lateral margin o...

Colonial mentality is a term used widely by ethnic studies scholars and by the Filipino American community to refer to a form of internalized oppression among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The authors propose that colonial mentality is a construct that is central to the understanding of the psychology of contemporary Filipino Americans. Drawing on larger scholarship from postcolonial studie...