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This essay analyses an early seventeeth century English "grade book," the register in which the Headmaster and Ushers of the Merchant Taylors' School, London, recorded the thrice annual testing of the boys in the school in order to demonstrate the boys' progress and their own diligence in teaching to the Merchant Taylors' Company, which founded and maintained the school. The school was the largest of the Elizabethan grammar schools, in which boys were systematically taught Latin grammar and rhetoric from the ages of the seven to seventeen. The institution was thus a robust forerunner of the modern school which dominates childhood. The analysis looks at what happened to the boys who were in the first form in 1607, the year the register begins, and reflects on what a document like this can tell us about the experience of schooling and schools as institutions.

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On November 25, 1969 Richard Nixon announced that because of the "massive, unpredictable, and potentially uncontrollable consequences" of biological weapons, the United States would never use these weapons, would destroy all existing stocks, and would confine its research to strictly defined measures of defense (Harris, 1987:193). This unilateral renunciation followed an extensive review by the National Security Council of U.S. chemical and biological warfare policy, which lasted six months and involved every relevant agency in the U.S. government and which concluded that U.S. biological warfare capabilities provided no compelling military advantages (Tucker, 1984-85:61). Three years later the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) was signed; it was the first postwar arms control agreement to elminate an entire class of weapons from the arsenals of states (U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1982:122). The treaty was ratified unanimously by the U.S. Senate in 1974, and over 100 nations have acceded to it. This arms control achievement has been attributed in part to the serious doubts which many countries, including the United States, shared about the military value of biological weapons (Harris, 1987:205-6). Within a decade of the signing of this treaty, however, the development of recombinant-DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) technology had raised the possibility of a new and more effective form of biological warfare.

A notable development in the discipline of international relations has been the recent surge of interest in the economic dimensions of world politics; the profusion of courses labeled "International Political Economy" suggests that a new field may be emerging. The attempt here is to explain & assess this development & to define the field of international political economy by identifying some of the major substantive foci & delineating some of the contending perspectives. The syllabi of 45 recently introduced international relations courses that focus on the relationship of international economic & political processes are examined. These syllabi were solicited from members of the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Assoc. The attempt to delineate patterns of course offerings yielded 4 distinct categories. The analysis of syllabi indicated that a common core of substantive concerns has evolved & certain structural & conceptual frameworks have become established. Thus, some unity & coherence was found amid great diversity & breadth. AA.