Raises issues concerning what an international perspective can contribute to the history of psychology and to our understanding of psychology as a whole. This volume also aims to show that for too long, much of what we have taken to be the history of psychology has actually been the history of American psychology.
With this well-illustrated new volume, the SECC continues its tradition of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Essays include: Misty Anderson, Our Purpose is the Same: Whitefield, Foote, and the Theatricality of MethodismTili Boon Cuillé, La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's ......
Published in conjunction with the National Heritage Museum, this illustrated volume offers a brief overview of Freemasonry's origins in 17th-century Scotland and England before exploring its evolving role in American history, from the Revolution through the labour and civil rights movements, and into the 21st century.
For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Using a previously unexplored source - the internal archives of Colombia's UFCO operation - Bucheli examines the company.
The Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History is a unique reference book that will provide users with basic information about the history of social welfare in North America, including Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Since many themes and issues are similar in the three nations, entries will provide comparative information about common as well ......
The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Design
The continually increasing technological sophistication has led from the simple wheel, designed to make transportation of goods and people easier, all the way to space travel - with a multitude of intervening steps. This title traces these steps along the path to our modern technological sophistication.
The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."
Journalism: A Critical History provides a history of the development of newspapers, periodicals and broadcast journalism which: enables readers to engage critically with contemporary issues within the news media; outlines the connections, as well as the distinctions, across historical periods; spans the introduction of printed news to the arrival ......
