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This work examines the Middle Colonies -- New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania -- as a region at the center of imperial contests among competing European powers and Native American nations and at the fulcrum of an emerging BritishAtlantic world of culture and trade.Ned C. Landsman traces the history of the Middle Colonies to address questions ......
This work examines the Middle Colonies -- New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania -- as a region at the center of imperial contests among competing European powers and Native American nations and at the fulcrum of an emerging BritishAtlantic world of culture and trade.Ned C. Landsman traces the history of the Middle Colonies to address questions ......
Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy
This book will be of profound interest both to those responsible for carrying out national health care policy and to those who study health policy from an academic perspective.
Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies -- in which he explores how a single obscure object or text moved in the eastern world -- Ben-Zaken reveals ......
Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy
How Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy. The question of public trust in science feels newly urgent, but today is not the first time that opposing ends of the American political spectrum have critiqued modern science. This dynamic has historical roots in the early 1970s, when ......
The field of critical studies recognizes that all knowledge is deeply embedded in ideological, cultural, political, and historical contexts. Although this approach is commonly applied in other subfields of psychology, educational psychologywhich is the study of human learning, thinking, and behavior in formal and informal educational ......
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff,Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significantand long overduecontribution to the development of the ......
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff,Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significantand long overduecontribution to the development of the ......
With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called 'the age of revolutions.'The study examines an accumulation of countervailing elements in a ......