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Article: The Early Origins of the Social Sciences.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
- Author:
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This book, first published in a cloth edition in 1993 (available for $55.00), now appears unrevised in paperback. It contains several important messages, which are straightforwardly conveyed by reference to a wide-ranging collection of authors. In relating the messages here it is helpful to know that Lynn McDonald describes herself as a "sociologist/activist/feminist/environmentalist" in her companion volume The Women Founders of the Social Sciences (1994). The Early Origins is not another canter through the history of social/sociological theories from the ancient Greeks to the early 20th century. That is the chronological canvas, but the focus is different, for this is ...
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Article: Pittsfield Bylaw Lends Credence To Early Origins
The Washington Post;
May 12, 2004 ;
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...Officials and historians in Pittsfield, Mass., released a 213- year-old document yesterday that they believe is the earliest written reference to baseball. The evidence comes in a 1791 bylaw that aims to protect the windows in Pittsfield's new meeting house by prohibiting anyone from playing
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