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Producing Ignorance: Racial Knowledge and Immigration in Germany

We are members of knowledge societies, but we live in “an age of ignorance.” We are swimming in “oceans of ignorance” that have been consciously, unconsciously, and structurally produced “by neglect, forgetfulness, myopia, extinction,...

Histories of Knowledge around the Web

Ten links

  1. Teaching Soviet Children the Language of Science and Technology by Laura Todd at The Language of ‘Authoritarian’ Regimes, June 28, 2017
  2. What We Can Learn from Fake News by Paul J. Croce at the History News Network, July 23, 2017
  3. How African American Activists are Influencing Latinos by Aaron Fountain at Black Perspectives, July 25, 2017

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Technologies of Trust: Marc Flandreau’s Examination of Financial and Anthropological Knowledge in Victorian Britain

Marc Flandreau. Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Victorian London can be seen as multiple cities at once: the imperial metropole par excellence, where different political visions clashed in the course of establishing and governing the British Empire; the thumping heart of global capitalism… Continue reading