06-13-2011, 18:30
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Area Commander
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigaba
C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, The Rede Lecture, 1959 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1961). The lecture, in PDF format, is available here.
Robert William Fogel, a prominent economist and historian, argues that this lecture was anticipated the "culture wars" of the twentieth century's last four decades.*
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* Robert William Fogel, "Lecture 1: Breaking Away from the Phillips Tradition," in his The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective, The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), pp. 20-21.
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Great find, Sigaba.
Skimmed it during available time.
Definitely going to bring the flash drive back and grab this one.
The observations at the beginning of the article were excellent.
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