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History of science. Institutions. Princeton University. University of Virginia. Johns Hopkins University. Dorothy Ross (born 1936) is an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She attended Smith College and Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Virginia ...
Jul 19, 2011 · In short, Ross argues that most U.S. intellectual historians have framed the nation’s history through the lens of modernity–at least, since the historiographical renunciation of American exceptionalism in the 1960s.
American Modernities, Past and Present. DOROTHY ROSS. In the historical narratives that nations write for themselves, of modernity is a crucial component of identity. In the United. of the world, the construction of a national self-conception was Eurocentric character of modernity. The United States began eighteenth century as a dependency of ...
Dorothy Ross argues that recent historians have emphasized Abraham Lincoln’s opposition to slavery to the neglect of his ardent nationalism.
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The definitive reference work on the history of the sciences The first comprehensive survey of its kind for thirty years Online information at www.cambridge.org/cambridgehistories
General Editors: David C. Lindberg University of Wisconsin, Madison Ronald L. Numbers University of Wisconsin, Madison The Cambridge History of Science is to be published in eight substantial volumes, beginning with Ancient Mesopotamia and classical Greece and Rome, through the Medieval period, early modern Europe, and on through modern science. ...
THE CAMBRI DGE H ISTORY OF MARY JO E D I T E D B Y NYE Edited by Mary Jo Nye Oregon State University
VOLUME 5 THE MODERN PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from...
THE CAMBRI DGE H ISTORY OF D I T E D Y ted porter Edited by Ted Porter University of California, Los Angeles and Dorothy Ross The Johns Hopkins University
VOLUME 7 THE MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCES This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, ...
From Romance to Uncertainty. DOROTHY ROSS. WILLIAM M. SLOANE, soon to be Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, began the first number of the American Historical Review by noting the existence of "widespread discontent with the results of historical study as pursued to-day." If that situation seems familiar, Sloane's response to ...
American historian (born 1936) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dorothy Ross (born 1936) is an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She attended Smith College and Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Virginia before Johns Hopkins.
