Denise Phillips

World History

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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
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Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Denise Phillips, Field Specialties: 18th- and 19th-century Germany, Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History, History of Science. In addition to teaching the second half of the Western Civilization sequence, Dr. Phillips offers courses in early modern German history, modern European intellectual and cultural history, and the history of science. Her own research deals with the cultural history of science in 18th- and 19th century German-speaking Europe. Professor Phillips serves as an graduate advisor in modern German history, modern European intellectual history, and history of science. Education: Ph.D., Harvard University; 2004, Selected Publications: Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). “Trading Epistemological Insults: ’Positive Knowledge’ and Natural Science in Germany, 1800-1850,” in: Positivism, Power and Enlightenment: the Politicization of the Scientific World View, eds. Franz L. Fillafer and Jan Surman, forthcoming.

Acolytes of Nature

December 03, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13212220-acolytes-of-nature Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850 by Denise Phillips Although many of…

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