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Entangled History

Entangled History By: Sönke Bauck and Thomas Maie Source: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/cias/wiki/e_Entangled_History.html Entangled History (EH) is a historical perspective and a concept in historiography. Taking a trans-cultural perspective as the main point of departure EH centers on the interconnectedness of societies. The basic assumption is that neither nations, nor empires, nor

Global Flows: Kathryn Caminiti

Source: http://mediacultureandglobalization.yolasite.com/menu.php Global FlowsBy: Kathryn Caminiti There is a complex relationship between dominant international media flows and subaltern, contra-flows today that a large majority of people around the world are not aware of. Most people today are so caught up in their daily cultural lives that they do not realize the major impact of global

Indian-Jaina Dialectic of Syadvad in Relation to Probability

Source: https://indiaphilosophy.wordpress.com/tag/syadvad/ Indian-Jaina Dialectic of Syadvad in Relation to Probability By P.C. Mahalanobis Brief History of Syadvada There are certain ideas in Indian-Jaina logic called syadvada which seem to have close relevance to the concepts of probability, and which can, therefore supply a convenient background to my own observations on the

Arms and the Man

Source: http://freehelpstoenglishliterature.blogspot.in/2008/07/character-of-louka-in-arms-and-man.html Character of Louka in Arms and the Man  Shaw conceived of Louka as a strong willed woman, necessary for his dramatic purpose of exposing the vanity of the upper-class and the political purpose of showing the socialist principle of showing equality among individuals in a society. It must