When did incomes in developed countries diverge from those in the rest of the world? Additionally, it explores and evaluates the uses and limitations of quantification through historical case studies. Are there additional clues to intended veracity? The aim of this Approach is to introduce history students, very familiar with working with the evidence of words and texts, to a different type of evidence for the human past: mute material remains. This topic explores the way anthropologists have looked at and thought about the past, be it myths, genealogies, oral histories, or the work of professional historians, as an attempt by participants within a society to explain who they are and to legitimize, contest or make sense of the world as it is. These texts bring the student face to face with the nature of early medieval kingship and, more specifically, with two momentous transformations in European and British history. Beyond this, there are various way in which the text may be placed in a wider context. The course has three objectives: Candidates will be required to show understanding of the following: Please note that the options listed above are illustrative and may be subject to change. Issues raised by the study of the period include: the development of the Russian Social Democratic movement, the worker’s movement, the development of Russian liberalism and the part it played in the events of 1905, the nature of the Russian Imperial Government and the effect of the Russo-Japanese war on Russian society and politics, the Russian agrarian question. Classes and tutorials are supported by a comprehensive lecture-course which runs in the Michaelmas Term. Did he make statements damaging to himself, thus probably not seeking to distort? Can history be divided into stages like feudalism and capitalism as Marx argued? Finally they may re-examine the text in the light of Tocqueville’s own intellectual development and political career. during two research trips to South Africa in 1987 and 1989. Do diminishing returns or class conflict explain the distribution of income? No prior knowledge of statistics is assumed and A-level mathematics is not required. Howell, Martha & Prevenier, Walter(2001). The idea of the history of art: displaying, writing and collecting. It explores different notions of power developed by theorists such as Foucault, and ideas of bureaucracy, social discipline, revolt and revolution. They provide an indispensable corrective to the familiar picture found in his better-known treatise The Prince. Eyewitnesses are, in general, to be preferred especially in circumstances where the ordinary observer could have accurately reported what transpired and, more specifically, when they deal with facts known by most contemporaries. Unit 2A, The Plough Brewery