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The Tacuinum Sanitatis: A Medieval Health Manual, Loren D. Mendelsohn
The Tacuinum Sanitatis: A Medieval Health Manual, Loren D. Mendelsohn
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Technology Can Be Seen As Driver Of History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Technology Can Be Seen As Driver Of History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki
Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki
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"Scientificity" and appeals to political independence are invaluable tools when institutions such as the American School of Classical Studies at Athens attempt to maintain professional autonomy. Nonetheless, the cooperation of scientists and scholars with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), among them archaeologists affiliated with the American School, suggests a constitutive affinity between political and cultural leadership. This relationship is here mapped in historical terms, while, at the same time, sociological categorizations of knowledge and its employment are used in order to situate archaeologists in their broader social and political context and to evaluate their work not merely as agents …
Brooklyn And The Bicycle, David V. Herlihy
Brooklyn And The Bicycle, David V. Herlihy
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