The practice of history has to contend with philosophies of history that exist in two different worlds. One is inhabited by philosophers, the other by historians. Workers in these different worlds rarely attend to the work of each other, despite overlap- ping interests. Nowhere is this more true than in questions surrounding what philosophers call realism and what historians call objectivity. T…
For some time I have been interested in the changing fortunes of the adjective old-fashioned. I find it significant that this adjective has by now shed all of its pejorative associations. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary shows that a century ago old-fashioned had a wide currency in the sense of a child having the ways of a grown-up person, hence, precocious, knowing." Dickens would ha…
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when we first planned the volumes for the ford humanities project at pricenton we set as our goal a series of essays that would be contributions to that part of american intelectual history which has to do with humanistic scholarship" the present volume is such a contributions and more to. for it apperas that historical scholarship occupies so central and commanding a position in america today …
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Rst 19/08/24rnThe JCT standard forms of building contract require a thorough understanding of their procedural requirements, as well as their legal implications. They require both the contractor and the architect, on behalf of the employer, to send a wide range of notices and letters if each party is to protect its legitimate interests.rnThe main contract forms are also supported by complex sub…
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