In The Uncertain Sciences Bruce Mazlish has written a learned and comprehensive history of the traditional humanities and several social sciences. The outstanding feature of his work is that he ties the history of the human sciences to a summary history of humankind on the one hand, and to the histo
A critique of postcolonial reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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