Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
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Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Billboard
Author: Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressCulture and Imperialism
Author: Edward W. SaidPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307829650
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.
Music News
Author: Presbyterian Banner
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College
Author: George Thomas ChapmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Trust in Numbers
Author: Theodore M. PorterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.