Stephen Gaukroger, "The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay."

While there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the historical and contemporary social, economic, and political status of U.S. Latinx individuals and communities, the majority focuses on traditional Southwestern U.S., Northeastern U.S., and South Florida rural/urban enclaves. Recent “New Destinations” research, however, documents the turn of the 21st century Latinx experiences in non-traditional white/black, and rural/urban Latinx regional enclaves. This socio-historical essay adds to and challenges emerging literature with a nearly five-century old delineation of Latinidad in the Intermountain West, a region often overlooked in the construction of Latina/o identity. Selected interviews from the Spanish-Speaking Peoples in Utah Oral History and Wyoming’s La Cultura Hispanic Heritage Oral History projects shed light on Latinidad and the adoption of Latinx labels in the region during the latter third of the 20th century centering historical context, material conditions, sociodemographic characteristics, and institutional processes in this decision. Findings point to important implications for the future of Latinidad in light of the region’s Latinx renaissance at the turn of the 21st century. The region’s increased Latino proportional presence, ethnic group diversity, and socioeconomic variability poses challenges to the region’s long-established Hispano/Nuevo Mexicano Latinidad.

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HISTORICAL ESSAY: A History of HIV Discovery

Science ◽

10.1126/science.1079027 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 298 (5599) ◽

pp. 1727-1728 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

L. Montagnier

Keyword(s):

Historical Essay ◽

History Of

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The prehistory of the Principia from 1664 to 1686

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1991.0002 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 11-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Keyword(s):

Historical Essay ◽

Basic Level ◽

Made In

Since S.P. Rigaud’s pioneering Historical essay appeared in 18381 there have been many, from Rouse Ball, Cajori and Beth down to I.B. Cohen, A.R. Hall, J.W. Herivel and R.S. Westfall in our own day, who have explored how Newton’s Principia came to be. 2 Surely there can be nothing profoundly new to be said about its progress from first conception as an inchoate idea in its author’s mind to the maturity of its first publication in 1687? No and yes. There is now a broad balance of agreement over the main stages in its evolution: one no longer set greatly awry by the nuggets of Principia gold still (if with decreasing frequency and size) to be sieved from Newton’s papers by those willing laboriously to do the panning. Anyone not of the fraternity, however, would surely be surprised to see how much Newton scholars can still at times find to disagree upon in assessing what is now in itself known in such abundance, sometimes even at the most basic level of dating a manuscript. 3 As for the changes that must now be made in the accepted account, these only slowly filter through. How often am I still asked: 'Did Newton use calculus to obtain the theorems in his Principia ?’ How, without seeming to patronize, do you lay the groundwork on which you can reply that the question is ill-formed and therefore meaningless? I will not here go into the reasons why. 4 But I would like briefly to tell anew the tale of how Newton wrote his Principia , embellishing it with some of the freshnesses of insight that have come out of recent research.

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