Roger Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transparency and the Open Society
Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that …
Practical Lessons for Effective Policy
Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that …
Landscapes of Stone
Between 2004 and 2011 Graham Hill and Dave Edwards plotted nearly eight thousand prehistoric artefacts from ploughed fields across the Clodgy Moor area of West Penwith. In 2011 a project was carried out by the Historic Environment Service Projects team, Cornwall Council, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Cornwall Archaeological Society to catalogue and digitize all the finds recorded from the fieldwalking.The project demonstrated that some …
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
Gossans and Leached Cappings
Photography and Italy
On the Beach
In 1990 a stone covered pit containing a Trevisker Ware vessel was found eroding from the cliffs at Harlyn Bay and excavated. The vessel contained cremated bone from several individuals with some animal bone, quartz pebbles, and a small bronze pendant. A radiocarbon date on the cremated bone fell in the range 2120–1880 cal bc and is a valuable addition to the small number of securely-dated Early Bronze Age burials in Cornwall with metalwork assoc…
Bosiliack and a Reconsideration of Entrance Graves
In 1984 the entrance grave at Bosiliack, Cornwall, was excavated by Charles Thomas on behalf of the Institute of Cornish Studies. It was a comparatively small example, approximately 5 m in diameter encircled by a substantial kerb. A deposit of cremated bone was found within the chamber accompanied by sherds of plain pottery from three vessels. Two radiocarbon determinations were obtained on the cremated bone. The dates were almost identical, fall…
Linnaeus Tripe
Linnaeus Tripe is the memorable name of a remarkable photographer whose extensive body of work in India and Burma is quite exceptional. Tripe was born in Devonport, on 14 April 1822, the sixth son of Cornelius and Mary Tripe, and the ninth of twelve children. Through the influence of his brother-in-law, a colonel in the 3rd Madras Light Infantry, Tripe and two of his brothers followed a military career with the East India Company army. At the age…
Pilgrims of the Sun’ The chemical evolution of the calotype 1840–1852
Put yourself in the place of an amateur taking up photography in the spring of 1854, just as the light of early summer begins to tempt. Last year you read that the Photographic Society had been formed in London, and, on visiting their first exhibition a few months ago, the quality and beauty of the prints captured your attention. You found the tonality and rendering of prints made from paper negatives more to your aesthetic taste than those print…
Claudet, Fenton and the photographic society
I was fascinated to read Marian Kamlish's article in a recent issue of this journal, in which she discusses Antoine Claudet, Roger Fenton and the formation of a Photographic Society in London.1 Central to her thesis is the claim that Claudet was the likely author of an anonymous, undated manuscript that sets out in some detail the rationale behind the formation of such a society, with particulars of its management and proposed finances
The Course of German History
One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books, The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style, yet succinct to the point of sharpness, this is one of the great historian's finest, if more controversial, accomplishments. As Taylor himself noted, 'the history of the Germans is a history of extremes. It contains everything except moderation.' He could, of course, simply be referring to his own book.
Late Prehistoric Petroleum Collection in Pennsylvania
Previous reports using archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic data have proposed that petroleum was extracted by pre-contact aboriginal populations in western Pennsylvania employing wood-lined pits. A suite of AMS-based 14C analyses on total amino acid extracts on nine duplicate samples from a homogenized decadal (10-year) sample of wood taken from a single stake removed from a pit feature at Drake Well Park, Titusville, Pennsylvania, has pe…
The Graphic Society and Photography, 1839
The introduction of photography to scientific audiences in London during the early months of 1839 is well documented. Its announcement through the pages of the British press has been widely studied. The meetings of the Royal Institution and Royal Society in January 1839 at which William Henry Fox Talbot described and showed examples of his work are deeply embedded within the history of the medium.1 What has not been understood is whether London's…
Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Reimbursement and Insurance in the United States
The United States health care system is a unique and uncoordinated combination of private and public programmes involving em ployers, government, insurance companies, and individual consumers. Although spending on health care comprised 12 % of the US gross domestic product in 1990, it is estimated that 35-7 million Americans are uninsured, three quarters of whom are fulltime workers and their dependents.1 Also, it is estimated that as many as 40 …
The Third Form of Carbon A New Era in Chemistry
The discovery of a new allotrope of carbon which comprises hollow cage structures heralds a new era in chemistry that has been likened to that which followed the discovery of benzene. A huge worldwide research effort into the physical and chemical properties of carbon cages has now been initiated
The Third Form of Carbon A New Era in Chemistry
The environmental implications of liberalism
Even if contemporary liberal political thought fails to provide an adequate basis for environmental protection, investigating its environmental implications may be a worthy enterprise, if only to foster discussion among liberal thinkers about the obligation to protect the environment. Examination of four contemporary liberal views of distributive justice—those of Rawls, Arneson, Sen, and the libertarians—shows that in these theories, environmenta…
What Did I Do During Thatcherism
For all the moral claptrap, Thatcherism entered my personal life by way of a temptation or bribe. In 1982 I was grinding away at an academic career. I had been at it since the early sixties and, like most of my colleagues, was gasping for early retirement. To
Anthologies, Modernism, Entertainment
Pollock and After: the Critical Debate edited by Francis Frascina , London: Harper & Row, 1985, 266 pp., 6 ills, £6.50 Modernism, Criticism, Realism edited by Charles Harrison and Fred Orton , London: Harper & Row, 1984, 280 pp., 7 ills, £6.95
The Social Production of Art
Art, an Enemy of the People
Beyond Art
On the Beach
In 1990 a stone covered pit containing a Trevisker Ware vessel was found eroding from the cliffs at Harlyn Bay and excavated. The vessel contained cremated bone from several individuals with some animal bone, quartz pebbles, and a small bronze pendant. A radiocarbon date on the cremated bone fell in the range 2120–1880 cal bc and is a valuable addition to the small number of securely-dated Early Bronze Age burials in Cornwall with metalwork assoc…
Bosiliack and a Reconsideration of Entrance Graves
In 1984 the entrance grave at Bosiliack, Cornwall, was excavated by Charles Thomas on behalf of the Institute of Cornish Studies. It was a comparatively small example, approximately 5 m in diameter encircled by a substantial kerb. A deposit of cremated bone was found within the chamber accompanied by sherds of plain pottery from three vessels. Two radiocarbon determinations were obtained on the cremated bone. The dates were almost identical, fall…
Landscapes of Stone
Between 2004 and 2011 Graham Hill and Dave Edwards plotted nearly eight thousand prehistoric artefacts from ploughed fields across the Clodgy Moor area of West Penwith. In 2011 a project was carried out by the Historic Environment Service Projects team, Cornwall Council, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Cornwall Archaeological Society to catalogue and digitize all the finds recorded from the fieldwalking.The project demonstrated that some …
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
The environmental implications of liberalism
Even if contemporary liberal political thought fails to provide an adequate basis for environmental protection, investigating its environmental implications may be a worthy enterprise, if only to foster discussion among liberal thinkers about the obligation to protect the environment. Examination of four contemporary liberal views of distributive justice—those of Rawls, Arneson, Sen, and the libertarians—shows that in these theories, environmenta…
Beyond Art
The Social Production of Art
Art, an Enemy of the People
Anthologies, Modernism, Entertainment
Pollock and After: the Critical Debate edited by Francis Frascina , London: Harper & Row, 1985, 266 pp., 6 ills, £6.50 Modernism, Criticism, Realism edited by Charles Harrison and Fred Orton , London: Harper & Row, 1984, 280 pp., 7 ills, £6.95
What Did I Do During Thatcherism
For all the moral claptrap, Thatcherism entered my personal life by way of a temptation or bribe. In 1982 I was grinding away at an academic career. I had been at it since the early sixties and, like most of my colleagues, was gasping for early retirement. To
Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Reimbursement and Insurance in the United States
The United States health care system is a unique and uncoordinated combination of private and public programmes involving em ployers, government, insurance companies, and individual consumers. Although spending on health care comprised 12 % of the US gross domestic product in 1990, it is estimated that 35-7 million Americans are uninsured, three quarters of whom are fulltime workers and their dependents.1 Also, it is estimated that as many as 40 …
The Third Form of Carbon A New Era in Chemistry
The discovery of a new allotrope of carbon which comprises hollow cage structures heralds a new era in chemistry that has been likened to that which followed the discovery of benzene. A huge worldwide research effort into the physical and chemical properties of carbon cages has now been initiated
The Third Form of Carbon A New Era in Chemistry
The environmental implications of liberalism
Even if contemporary liberal political thought fails to provide an adequate basis for environmental protection, investigating its environmental implications may be a worthy enterprise, if only to foster discussion among liberal thinkers about the obligation to protect the environment. Examination of four contemporary liberal views of distributive justice—those of Rawls, Arneson, Sen, and the libertarians—shows that in these theories, environmenta…
The Graphic Society and Photography, 1839
The introduction of photography to scientific audiences in London during the early months of 1839 is well documented. Its announcement through the pages of the British press has been widely studied. The meetings of the Royal Institution and Royal Society in January 1839 at which William Henry Fox Talbot described and showed examples of his work are deeply embedded within the history of the medium.1 What has not been understood is whether London's…
Late Prehistoric Petroleum Collection in Pennsylvania
Previous reports using archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic data have proposed that petroleum was extracted by pre-contact aboriginal populations in western Pennsylvania employing wood-lined pits. A suite of AMS-based 14C analyses on total amino acid extracts on nine duplicate samples from a homogenized decadal (10-year) sample of wood taken from a single stake removed from a pit feature at Drake Well Park, Titusville, Pennsylvania, has pe…
The Course of German History
One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books, The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style, yet succinct to the point of sharpness, this is one of the great historian's finest, if more controversial, accomplishments. As Taylor himself noted, 'the history of the Germans is a history of extremes. It contains everything except moderation.' He could, of course, simply be referring to his own book.
Pilgrims of the Sun’ The chemical evolution of the calotype 1840–1852
Put yourself in the place of an amateur taking up photography in the spring of 1854, just as the light of early summer begins to tempt. Last year you read that the Photographic Society had been formed in London, and, on visiting their first exhibition a few months ago, the quality and beauty of the prints captured your attention. You found the tonality and rendering of prints made from paper negatives more to your aesthetic taste than those print…
Claudet, Fenton and the photographic society
I was fascinated to read Marian Kamlish's article in a recent issue of this journal, in which she discusses Antoine Claudet, Roger Fenton and the formation of a Photographic Society in London.1 Central to her thesis is the claim that Claudet was the likely author of an anonymous, undated manuscript that sets out in some detail the rationale behind the formation of such a society, with particulars of its management and proposed finances
Linnaeus Tripe
Linnaeus Tripe is the memorable name of a remarkable photographer whose extensive body of work in India and Burma is quite exceptional. Tripe was born in Devonport, on 14 April 1822, the sixth son of Cornelius and Mary Tripe, and the ninth of twelve children. Through the influence of his brother-in-law, a colonel in the 3rd Madras Light Infantry, Tripe and two of his brothers followed a military career with the East India Company army. At the age…
Bosiliack and a Reconsideration of Entrance Graves
In 1984 the entrance grave at Bosiliack, Cornwall, was excavated by Charles Thomas on behalf of the Institute of Cornish Studies. It was a comparatively small example, approximately 5 m in diameter encircled by a substantial kerb. A deposit of cremated bone was found within the chamber accompanied by sherds of plain pottery from three vessels. Two radiocarbon determinations were obtained on the cremated bone. The dates were almost identical, fall…
Gossans and Leached Cappings
Photography and Italy
On the Beach
In 1990 a stone covered pit containing a Trevisker Ware vessel was found eroding from the cliffs at Harlyn Bay and excavated. The vessel contained cremated bone from several individuals with some animal bone, quartz pebbles, and a small bronze pendant. A radiocarbon date on the cremated bone fell in the range 2120–1880 cal bc and is a valuable addition to the small number of securely-dated Early Bronze Age burials in Cornwall with metalwork assoc…
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
Landscapes of Stone
Between 2004 and 2011 Graham Hill and Dave Edwards plotted nearly eight thousand prehistoric artefacts from ploughed fields across the Clodgy Moor area of West Penwith. In 2011 a project was carried out by the Historic Environment Service Projects team, Cornwall Council, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Cornwall Archaeological Society to catalogue and digitize all the finds recorded from the fieldwalking.The project demonstrated that some …
Transparency and the Open Society
Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that …
Practical Lessons for Effective Policy
Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that …
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