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Journal of the History of Ideas
Volume 69, Number 1 (January 2008)
Leonardo Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories
GARY IANZITI
1
The Contractility of Burke’s Sublime and Heterodoxies in Medicine and Art
ARIS SARAFIANOS
23
Godless Savages and Superstitious Dogs: Charles Darwin, Imperial Ethnography, and the Problem of Human Uniqueness
MATTHEW DAY
49
‘‘Philosophy’’ or ‘‘Religion’’? The Confrontation with Foreign Categories in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
GERARD CLINTON GODART
71
The ‘‘Historical Solution’’ versus the ‘‘Philosophical Solution’’: The Political Commentary of Christopher Dawson and Jacques Maritain, 1927–1939
STEPHEN G. CARTER
93
Francis Bacon, Feminist Historiography, and the Dominion of Nature
BRIAN VICKERS
117
Response to Brian Vickers, ‘‘Francis Bacon, Feminist Historiography, and the Dominion of Nature’’
KATHARINE PARK
143
Secrets of Nature: The Bacon Debates Revisited
CAROLYN MERCHANT
147
Books Received
163
Notice
167