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"This book is an accessible discussion of humility for a general audience that aims to recover a lost virtue and to offer humility as a way forward for our divided society. It's a cultural history-the biography of an idea. Recovering humility might serve as an alternative to the diseases of hubris, arrogance, and narcissism that have infected us. The frightening alternative to a life of humility has been the death of civility. History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, hubris follows. This book explores treatments of humility in Greco-Roman history, philosophy, and literature; ancient and medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures and sermons; and Enlightenment and contemporary discussions on education in virtue and citizenship"--

Research in Economic History is a refereed journal, specializing in economic history, in the form of a book. This volume contains Louis Cain and Brooks Kaiser, "A Century of Environmental Legislation"; Stefano Fenoaltea, "The Measurement of Production: Lessons from the Engineering Industry in Italy, 1911"; Farley Grubb, "Is Paper Money Just Paper Money? Experimentation and Variation in Paper Monies Issued by the American Colonies from 1690 to 1775"; Oriol Sabate, "New Quantitative Estimates of Long-Term Military Spending in Spain, 1850-2009"; Eric Schneider, "Health, Gender and the Household: Children's Growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston MA and the Ashford School, London, UK"; Ta-Chen Wang, "Entry, Competition and Terms of Credit in Early American Banking.

"Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches,methods and sources that together formthe basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research"--

Distinguished dimensions of political cleavages that may characterize the shape of party systems; advances 3 propositions to characterize one likely path of cleavage formation in postcommunist regimes. Argues that the economic institutions and resources that the deceased communist systems bequeathed to the democratic successor regimes will influence emerging political preferences, interests, and party strategies. (RSM)

Abstract
The practices of measurement have long been taken as authoritative technologies that travel unusually well and easily across cultural boundaries, and as a sign and cause of the apparent dominance of Western modes of science. Attention to the rituals of measurement and to the emergence of the forms of knowledge that accompanied measurement, notably the sciences of metrology, helps challenge these assumptions. Stories of the silent trade, often located in western Africa, and of the ritual origins of measurement, developed within anthropology and conjectural history, can be used to explore how measurement practices traveled and changed. In particular, the work of Marc Bloch as the preeminent historian of ceremony and power can help illuminate the relation between the historical geography of metrology and the scope of the sciences. His brilliant analysis of the royal ritual of "cramp rings" and its fate provides an important example and precedent for comparably ceremonial and culturally significant episodes in the long history of the science of measurement.