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To understand the meaning behind a social order, we must first learn the history of this photo. The history of mental illness are as varied as the stereotypes we use to define crazy day. What we now define as abnormal of modern psychology and dealing with drugs and / or treatment have been treated differently…
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Madness and Civilization
To understand the meaning behind a social order, we must first learn the history of that image. The history of mental illness is as varied as the stereotypes we use to define the insane today. What we now define as “abnormal” in modern psychology and treat with medication and/or therapy has been treated differently throughout…
The History of the Countryside
The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham is a study of landscapes in the British lowlands from prehistory down to the present. He traces the history of hamlets, medieval farms, lonely moats, footpaths, woodlands, wood pasture, fords, field hedges, and other aspects of the countryside. Rackham then dwells into their origin, their extent at…
Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England
Alan Cooper’s Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England makes an interesting read about the evolving laws and power relations surrounding the maintenance and repair of medieval English bridges. Environmental changes in the 10th and 11th Century Britain that resulted in increased water flow through the rivers and hence more and more fords becoming unusable…
The men who ruled India
“The Men who ruled India” is Philip Woodruff’s two volume historical classic, entitled ‘The Founders’ and ‘ The Guardians’. The first volume, dealing with the “Founders” deals with the days of the English arrivals in India at the turn of the sixteenth century till the mutiny of 1857. The second volume, “The Guardians” deals with…
Saudi Arabia: Power, Legitimacy and Survival : Tim Niblock
Tim Niblock’s “Saudi Arabic: Power, Legitimacy and Survival” deals with the history of Saudi Arabia centered on the politics of oil, international terrorism, and Middle Eastern security. He gives focus to the internal dynamics of the Saudi state and explains the Saudi’s state source of legitimacy in ideological, traditional, personal, eudaemonic, tribal and democratic/structural terms….
Chris Turney’s Bones, Rocks and Stars
Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened is Chris Turney’s work published by Macmillan in 2006. The book contains eleven popular but different and unconnected topics connected to history and geology. The topics covered include dating the Julian and Gregorian calendars, an attempt to identify a historical King Arthur, the medieval forgery…
Glimpses of World History
Glimpses of World History written by the first Indian prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is one of the finest specimen of Indian writing in England. This rather voluminous work is actually a compilation of a collection of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to his daugher Indira, when he served time in prison fighting against British rule….