This article argues that modern time discipline was a product of the eighteenth-century. Whereas other works have emphasized the integration of time through nineteenth-century railway networks, this article holds that science and the state combined to bring discipline to time…

This article challenges the reigning understanding of eighteenth-century Prussia' s public sphere. Scholars have argued that Prussia's public was defined by print, and since print was easily distributed, its print public was potentially (if not actually) universal. This article holds,…

Two claims pervade the literature on the political economy of market reforms: that economic crises cause reforms; and that crises matter because they bring into question the validity of the economic model held to be responsible for them. Economic crises…

La categoría de “raza chilena”, como base étnica de la nación, es una invención intelectual, una representación que carece de fundamento objetivo. Se trata de un significante vacío que puede ser llenado con distintos rasgos, sean éstos biológicos, síquicos, culturales…